Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
South tower in the inner front garden with garden wall running to SW ring of the house
Gwernyfed, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II*
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 28 September 1961
- Locality
- Felindre
- Community
- Gwernyfed
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.02101, -3.19249
- Cadw reference
- 17051
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Located at the SE corner of the inner courtyard in front of Old Gwernyfed.
Exterior
Circular tower of 2 storeys of rubble sandstone, with a conical stone slated roof, the upper floor containing a dovecote of 10 tiers of nestboxes. Floor missing. Stone string at plinth level, and two blocked 2-light hollow chamfered stone windows. The ground floor has a depressed Tudor chamfered doorcase at the garden corner, and the upper floor is approached independently by a walled dog-leg stair from a Tudor headed gate in the S garden wall, and originally had a raking roof. Similar chamfered stone doorcase into the tower at the head of the stair, with label with dropped out-turned ends over.
Rubble stone garden boundary wall approximately 1.8m high leads from the tower to the corner of the SW wing of the house, including a doorway adjacent to that wing.
Reason for designation
Included as an important garden feature in the Grade I assemblage of historic buildings at Old Gwernyfed.
Nearby in the register
- Gatepiers to inner court in front of Old Gwernyfed with garden walls on each sideDomesticunder 1 mi
- North Tower in inner front garden, with the garden boundary wall leading to the NE wing of the houseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Old GwernyfedDomesticunder 1 mi
- Former Barn and Cowhouse Ranges Adjoining Old Gwernyfed HouseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.