LOOK OUT TOWER IN GARDEN TO NORTH OF PEN Y BRYN

LOOK OUT TOWER IN GARDEN TO NORTH OF PEN Y BRYN, MOPLA ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1299100
Date first listed:: 07-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:: LOOK OUT TOWER IN GARDEN TO NORTH OF PEN Y BRYN
Statutory Address:: LOOK OUT TOWER IN GARDEN TO NORTH OF PEN Y BRYN, MOPLA ROAD

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Date:: 2004-09-01
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1299100
Date first listed:: 07-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:: LOOK OUT TOWER IN GARDEN TO NORTH OF PEN Y BRYN
Statutory Address 1:: LOOK OUT TOWER IN GARDEN TO NORTH OF PEN Y BRYN, MOPLA ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: LOOK OUT TOWER IN GARDEN TO NORTH OF PEN Y BRYN, MOPLA ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Forest of Dean (District Authority)
Parish:: Tidenham
National Grid Reference:: ST 53728 95053

Details

TIDENHAM MOPLA ROAD, Tutshill ST 59 NW (north side) 9/241 Look-out tower in garden to north of Pen-Y-Bryn - II Folly. Probably early C19. Hollow circular tower in roughly coursed rubble, but much of wall core exposed. Tower up to c 7 metres high and c 5 metres outside diameter, two rough openings on opposing sides roughly south-east/north-west. Remains of a folly, in need of stabilisation at time of survey (November 1983).

Listing NGR: ST5372895053

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Legacy System number:: 354587
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.