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Latitude: 52.9566 / 52°57'23"N
Longitude: -4.0649 / 4°3'53"W
OS Eastings: 261383
OS Northings: 341906
OS Grid: SH613419
Mapcode National: GBR 5S.KWJS
Mapcode Global: WH55F.JYJ9
Plus Code: 9C4QXW4P+J2
Entry Name: The Look Out including adjoining walls
Listing Date: 30 November 1966
Last Amended: 14 May 1998
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 4812
Building Class: Domestic
ID on this website: 300004812
Mid C20 folly built by Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, architect, owner of the estate and village from 1908 until his death in 1978.
Squat cylindrical tower with adjoining walls; of local rubble construction, partly on rock foundations. The tower is of two stages and tapers slightly towards the top; here there is broad string course and a rubble dome surmounted by an urn finial of reconstituted stone. Balustraded opening to road side with shouldered rubble arch; reconstituted stone balustrade. Plain entrance to the rear and small square upper lights to the sides.
Adjoining the Look Out is a short section of curved rubble wall which advances in a convex sweep towards the road. Here it returns at right-angles to run north-eastwards, parallel with the street, for some 10 m at a height of 2.5 m; at the end the wall returns to terminate into a hillslope. To the R of centre, a round-arched opening with a much eroded sandstone head as keystone. Flanking rectangular lights and a further, similar opening to the NE return section; a sandstone ball finial surmounts the wall at the corner.
Included for its special interest as a folly by Sir Clough Williams-Ellis and for group value with other listed items in Garreg.
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