HER entry
Along with all Jersey's other coastal towers and historic fortifications it is a listed building, described as follows in the Jersey Heritage Historic Environment Record website:
Built circa 1778, the tower is significant as an integral part of a group of surviving Conway towers in Jersey that not only illustrates the changing political and strategic military history of the Island in the late 18th and 19th century, but represents a turning point in the history of defence strategy across Europe, and global trends in the history of war.
Conway-pattern tower, circa 1778. The first of the Conway Towers to be sold to a private individual, it was onverted into a private dwelling in the 1970s.
It is round and tapered, built of regular squared and well-tooled blocks of granite. The upper floors are punctuated with musketry loopholes, and a dressed granite doorway raised at first floor level. There are four machicolations at parapet level. A ground floor doorway on the landward side was formed some time before the conversion. Internally the tower has been entirely refitted. The ground floor magazine is lost.
1939
c1900
1970
1970
A new home
The tower was owned by the Colley family of St Brelade's Bay Hotel for decades and after conversion to living accommodation in 1970, it was lived in by Robert Colley. In 1981 the Jersey Evening Post published a feature with these photographs
