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Latitude: 51.6273 / 51°37'38"N
Longitude: -3.8606 / 3°51'38"W
OS Eastings: 271309
OS Northings: 193694
OS Grid: SS713936
Mapcode National: GBR H0.8PNC
Mapcode Global: VH4KC.1CFC
Plus Code: 9C3RJ4GQ+WQ
Entry Name: Jersey Marine Tower
Listing Date: 26 September 1985
Last Amended: 29 March 2000
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 11846
Building Class: Domestic
ID on this website: 300011846
Location: On high ground S of the New Tower Hotel, W of the B4290.
County: Neath Port Talbot
Community: Coedffranc (Coed-ffranc)
Community: Coedffranc
Locality: Jersey Marine
Traditional County: Glamorgan
Tagged with: Tower
Built by 1867 to support a camera obscura. The Jersey Marine Hotel adjoining the Tower was demolished in 1965.
The octagonal 4-stage tower survives as roofless shell. It is built of red brick with rusticated quoins of larger yellow bricks (some replaced in stone), and yellow brick dressings with stone keys and sills to the openings. On the E and W sides there are segmental-headed doorways in the lower stage, with segmental-headed windows in the other faces. The lower-stage openings have all been infilled. The middle stages also have segmental-headed windows while the upper stage has taller round-headed windows with key and impost blocks. The castellated crown projects on a moulded corbel table and is of banded red and yellow bricks. It has tall merlons with moulded copings.
The interior is now inaccessible, but retains some plaster to the walls and the joist sockets of the former upper floors. The first floor has a wooden chimneypiece on the N side.
Listed as an eye-catcher folly in a prominent location.
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