Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Trevor Tower
Llangollen Rural, Wrexham, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
- Date of designation
- 11 June 1998
- Locality
- Garth
- Town
- Llangollen
- Community
- Llangollen Rural
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.98259, -3.10925
- Cadw reference
- 19963
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1795 "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated on SE edge of Tower Wood on hillside overlooking Vale of Llangollen, about 0.5 km north of Garth.
History
Castellated look-out tower built in 1827.
Exterior
Circular 3-storey tower with flared base, slightly projecting castellated parapet and rectangular stair-turret with castellated parapet. Flat roof. Built in irregular, random tooled ashlar stone with raised string courses between floors; copings to parapets are slightly darker colour. Plain doorway with 'Gothick' traceried overlight to SW with square hood moulding; inserted doorway with timber moulding to NW. Rectangular windows with masonry hood moulding, timber central mullions and 16-pane 'Gothick' tracery to each floor. Rainwater head embossed with date '1827' on SW.
Interior
Interior and roof not accessible at time of inspection. Timber ground floor mostly rotted away. Spiral stairs to roof. Sub-rectangular basement with recess on W giving access to underground passage (now blocked) to Trevor Tower Cottage.
Reason for designation
Listed as a fine early C19 folly and for its picturesque appearance in the landscape.
Nearby in the register
- Trevor Tower CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Ysgoldy Brynhyfryd and two integrated HousesReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Pen y Gaer HillfortHillfortunder 1 mi
- Trevor HallDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.