Trevor Tower, Trevor, Wrexham

Coordinates

Latitude: 52.9826 / 52°58'57"N

Longitude: -3.1092 / 3°6'33"W

OS Eastings: 325624

OS Northings: 343381

OS Grid: SJ256433

Mapcode National: GBR 71.J17B

Mapcode Global: WH785.69N9

Plus Code: 9C4RXVMR+28

Entry Name: Trevor Tower

Listing Date: 11 June 1998

Last Amended: 11 June 1998

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 19963

Building Class: Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces

Also known as: King Williams Tower

ID on this website: 300019963

Location: Situated on SE edge of Tower Wood on hillside overlooking Vale of Llangollen, about 0.5 km north of Garth.

County: Wrexham

Town: Llangollen

Community: Llangollen Rural (Llangollen Wledig)

Community: Llangollen Rural

Locality: Garth

Built-Up Area: Trevor

Traditional County: Denbighshire

Tagged with: Tower Folly

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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.

Reasons for Listing

Listed as a fine early C19 folly and for its picturesque appearance in the landscape.

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Other nearby listed buildings

II Trevor Tower Cottage
Situated in Tower Wood 20 m west of Trevor Tower and about 0.5 km north of Garth. The house is located at lower ground level adjacent to a retaining wall.
II Ysgoldy Brynhyfryd and two integrated Houses
Situated alongside steeply sloping road at upper end of Garth and 75 m. below junction with Pen-y-gaer Road.
II U-Plan Farm Group at Trevor Hall Farm
Situated immediately downhill to east of Trevor Hall and beside main driveway; set into slope with open farmyard facing east. About 1km west of Trevor.
I Trevor Hall
Set in a wooded hillside location overlooking its own parkland and the eastern end of the vale of Llangollen.
II Summer-house & Walled Garden with Ha-ha and Gate Piers at Trevor Hall
Situated immediately south of main front of Trevor Hall and overlooking Vale of Llangollen.
II Trevor Church
Stuated in the former grounds of, and 200 m SE of Trevor Hall. About 1km west of Trevor.
II Outbuildings at Plas Ifa
Situated in farmyard of Plas Ifa on hillside above A539.
II Plas Ifa
Situated on hillside above A539, overlooking the Vale of Llangollen.

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Trevor Tower

A Grade II Listed Building in Trevor, Wrexham