Folly tower at Coed Twr, Pentir, Gwynedd

Coordinates

Latitude: 53.197 / 53°11'49"N

Longitude: -4.2055 / 4°12'19"W

OS Eastings: 252763

OS Northings: 368934

OS Grid: SH527689

Mapcode National: GBR 5L.2QVD

Mapcode Global: WH546.CWLY

Plus Code: 9C5Q5QWV+RQ

Entry Name: Folly tower at Coed Twr

Listing Date: 26 August 1992

Last Amended: 22 September 1997

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 4204

Building Class: Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces

ID on this website: 300004204

Location: Located near the W edge of Vaynol Park and sited in Vaynol Wood slightly to the N of the highest point, where 4 tracks intersect, and from where wide views can be obtained to the W.

County: Gwynedd

Town: Bangor

Community: Pentir

Locality: Vaynol Park

Traditional County: Caernarfonshire

Tagged with: Folly

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History

Probably built in the mid C18 as a landscape feature at the high point of the Park where it continued to form a landmark. The tower is mentioned in the Estate Papers before 1871.

Exterior

Built of local stone rubble. Circular in plan, with a narrow crenellated parapet. Square headed entrance on the N, set within a tall pointed arch. Four quatrefoils spaced around the top, 2 open to the N, all having red brick surrounds, and 4 flanking slit openings with 7 further slits below. Originally roofed.

Reasons for Listing

Included as one of a group of early estate buildings on the Vaynol Estate, intended to impart a picturesque quality, fashionable at that period.

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Other nearby listed buildings

II* Bryntirion
Bryntirion lies near the S end of Vaynol Park and is reached by a drive entered from the main road at Aber Pwll which climbs up through Bryntirion Lodge Wood to the sloping site of Bryntirion and its
II Ty Glo
Located at the W edge of Vaynol Park and at the S end of Boathouse Covert.
II Dock at NW edge of Vaynol Park, (including the boathouse)
Situated where the NW edge of Vaynol Park where it borders the Menai Strait, and is reached by the track that runs N close to the shore from Glan-y-mor Lodge to Boathouse Covert, immediately W of Ty
II Gate piers on Bryntirion Drive
Located on a short driveway from the Felinheli Road, on the drive to Bryntirion and Brynadda.
II Boathouse of Plas Newydd
Located c100m S of Plas Newydd, alongside the small harbour for the Estate on the Menai Strait.
II Retaining wall with small jetty in Menai Strait
Sea wall alongside Menai Strait forming an ornamental feature in the foreground of Plas Newydd, with jetty at S end.
II Y Fron
Situated at the NE end of Y Felinheli in the Aber Pwll area. On the NW side of the former A487, some 75m N of the bridge over the disused Bangor to Caernarvon railway line.
II Gate piers in boundary wall by Wern Gogas
The gate piers are located close to the road, on the track to Wern Gogas, and face SW towards Felinheli.

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Folly tower at Coed Twr

A Grade II Listed Building in Pentir, Gwynedd