Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gazebo Tower to the SE of Maenan Hall
Llanddoged and Maenan, Conwy, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Maenan, Llanddoged and Maenan, Conwy, designated on 13 October 1966.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 13 October 1966
- Locality
- Maenan
- Community
- Llanddoged and Maenan
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.16783, -3.80284
- Cadw reference
- 3214
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1795 map "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).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 106 Bangor (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 106 Bangor (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Located on a rise approximately 100m SE of Maenan Hall, overlooking the W side of the Vale of Conwy.
History
Early C19 gazebo or summerhouse, built to serve neighbouring Maenan Hall which underwent extension and alteration at that time. Restored from a ruin in 1959 by Christabel McLaren, Lady Aberconway, and her son Christopher; the work was supervised by S. Colwyn Ffoulkes, architect of Colwyn Bay.
Exterior
Circular stone tower of two storeys with a flat parapetted roof; rubble construction with red brick dressings to openings. Round-arched opposing entrances to W and E with square flanking window openings to front (W) and external concrete steps to rear, accessing upper floor and roof; iron balustrade. Segmental arched recess to N with inscribed plaque within: 'In 1959 this tower, then a ruin, was restored by Christabel McLaren and Christopher McLaren. It was dedicated to Helios and to the summer of 1959 when the sun shone every day, no winds blew and no rain fell. Architect S. Colwyn Ffoulkes; Mason H.G. Griffith'. Arched windows to upper storey with blind rectangular flanking lights in brick, in Venetian window arrangement; small-pane casement glazing. To the centre of the front (W) side, a C20 oculus to the upper floor. A free-standing, life-sized marble statue of Helios stands within the lower space.
Reason for designation
Listed for its origins as an unusual earlier C19 gazebo associated with Maenan Hall.
Nearby in the register
- Maenan HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Barn to the SW of Maenan HallAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- BelmontDomesticunder 1 mi
- Site of Aberconwy Abbey, MaenanAbbeyunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.