Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Ivy Tower
Crickhowell, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II*
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 19 July 1963
- Community
- Crickhowell
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.85820, -3.13727
- Cadw reference
- 7265
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 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Beside the road, in front of the Wardens Cottage and L-plan range.
History
Remains of a C14 tower formerly part of an outer gateway to Crickhowell Castle; considerable late C18/early C19 Picturesque alterations to a folly.
Exterior
Rounded right-hand rubble tower survives to a height of 2-storeys, later crenellated parapet with plain copings. Variuos openings including one medieval window facing the road with semicircular head over paired cusped lights.
Crenellated wall adjoins to left with similar window and boarded door; low remains of left hand gate tower now forms garden wall to Warden's cottage. Small section of contemporary rubble wall with jamb stone beyond the right hand tower.
Nearby in the register
- L-Plan Service Range to Ivy TowersDomesticunder 1 mi
- 3 Tower StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 4 Tower StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Ivy TowersDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.