Each circular room enjoys its own separate level including a lower ground floor bathroom and ground level reception area complete with a well equipped kitchen.
Clavell tower floor plan.
The tower is surmounted upon a shallow stone basement.
The building rises to 11 metres 35 ft and there are four levels which have been converted for convenient modern living.
Moving inside the tower via cantilevered steps to a raised ground floor accommodation is spread across four floors.
Swyre head clavell tower loop from kingston is an intermediate hiking tour.
Dismantled stone by stone from its perilous clifftop perch clavell tower a 19th century folly immortalised by thomas hardy and the crime novelist pd james will reopen today.
Discover more about the nearby coastal town of swanage by visiting its museum.
In total the tower has four floors.
It was built in 1830 31 for the reverend john richards clavell who took the name clavell when he inherited the smedmore estate smedmore house listed at grade ii in 1818.
The tower is surmounted upon a shallow stone basement.
A stone ground floor a wooden first a wooden second and a wooden third floor.
A stone ground floor a wooden first a wooden second and a wooden third floor.
Swyre head clavell tower loop from kingston 03 57 h 14 3 km.
The ground floor is surrounded by tuscan colonnade and the roof has a parapet built in stone.
Plan your walks right and you can have a cream tea at clavell s restaurant in kimmeridge to give you the energy to climb the cliff back to the tower o it can be a bit like living in a goldfish bowl as those passing are naturally curious about the tower but we didn t find it too intrusive.
Clavell tower clavel tower on the first and second edition ordnance survey maps of 1889 and 1902 stands in a prominent position on the cliff above kimmeridge bay.
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Plan your walks right and you can have a cream tea at clavell s restaurant in kimmeridge to give you the energy to climb the cliff back to the tower o it can be a bit like living in a goldfish bowl as those passing are naturally curious about the tower but we didn t find it too intrusive.
A tuscan colonnade encircles the ground floor and is accessed by a short set of ornamental stairs.
Detailed maps and gps navigation for the hike.
In total the tower has four floors.