Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gwernigron Dovecote
Bodelwyddan, Denbighshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II*
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 16 November 1962
- Locality
- Gwernigron
- Community
- Bodelwyddan
- Unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.26451, -3.46291
- Cadw reference
- 1382
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1795 "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Cadw's description
Location
In Gwernigron farmyard.
History
This dovecote features the style of stepped gable often found on high status buildings in this region in the late C16 or early C17.
When surveyed in c1960 this dovecote was roofless and ruinous. It has since been re-roofed.
Exterior
A dovecote in local hammer-dressed uncoursed limestone with selected larger stones and quoins and window or door dressings. The building is square with 4 similar gables, each with a deeply projecting corbel at the base of the gable and stepped copings.
At the centre of each gable is a 2-light opening for access by the pigeons. The door is on the W side, its sill about 2.5m above the ground.
The lowest part appears to have been an undercroft, with a door to the S and small windows to the other 3 sides. The window openings to E and W have grooves in the stonework suggesting they were glazed.
Interior
Pigeonholes in stone on all 4 sides, in 13 rows; about 400 holes in total. The dovecote appears to have had an undercroft, but nothing remains of any floor over an undercroft or of any potence.
Reason for designation
A well preserved and restored example of a large sub-mediaeval dovecote, and a fine example of a type characteristic of the north-east of Wales.
Nearby in the register
- Gwernigron FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Plas Coch Rest Home (main block only)Domesticunder 1 mi
- Greenhouse at Talardy HotelDomesticunder 1 mi
- Walled Garden at Talardy HotelDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.