Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Slaughter-house, dove-cot and smithy at Coed-y-dinas
Welshpool, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 29 February 1996
- Locality
- Coed-y-dinas
- Community
- Welshpool
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.64253, -3.14801
- Cadw reference
- 16760
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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
On the N side of the main farm-yard, E of the detached cartshed.
Exterior
History: Coed-y-dinas was a home-farm for the Powis Estate by the mid C19 but has earlier origins. Partially remodelled as 'Lord Powis's Model Farm' in the 1870's, various buildings survived from the earlier farm layout, including this building which is probably c1840.
Exterior: Roughly coursed local sandstone rubble with slate roof. 2 storeyed, 4-bay plan. Gable entrance to slaughter house which occupies western bay, with blocked window alongside. Single window with brick arched head to slaughter house set high up in front elevation, which then has paired doorways towards centre. The left-hand door gives access to the dovecote, and has wooden dove-door panel above. The right-hand door gives access to stairs; both are plank doors with simple voussoir heads. Wide double doors with segmental voussoir arch to smithy to the right, and 2-light segmentally headed window alongside. Smaller, lower window is a later insertion. 2 windows above the smithy, immediately below the eaves, one with iron glazing bars to small panes.
Interior: Slaughter house retains a series of axial beams at differing heights from which animals of different sizes were hung; dovecote is lined with nesting holes in brickwork, graded in size from top to bottom. Rooms above the smithy formerly comprised a bothy.
An excellent example of a compactly planned and ingeniously contrived multi-purpose farm-building which retains much of its original character, and forms part of a group of buildings on the farmstead.
Nearby in the register
- Western cartshed at Coed-y-dinasAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Eastern Cartshed at Coed-y-dinasAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Barn and Granary Range at Coed-y-dinasAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Cowsheds at Coed-y-dinasAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.