Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Dovecote at Gunley Hall
Forden with Leighton and Trelystan, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 26 October 1953
- Locality
- Gunley
- Town
- Forden
- Community
- Forden with Leighton and Trelystan
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.60233, -3.09156
- Cadw reference
- 19561
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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
Located to the E of the former stables of Gunley Hall, in a small wooded area in the corner of a field.
History
Built late C18 or early C19 for the Pryce family of Gunley Hall.
Exterior
Built of brick, octagonal in plan with pilaster buttresses stressing the angles extending to full height. Pyramidal hipped slate roof and boarded eaves. Entrance is a boarded door on the NE side facing the stables.
Interior
Circular internally, with 17 tiers of nest boxes above the low plinth, each with a slightly projecting brick flight ledge, 40 boxes in each tier, totalling approximately 660 nests. In the centre, a stone-built drum, approximately 80cm high, carrying the potence, with a braced frame to the perimeter ladder. The potence is supported by a bearing in cross trees level with the wall top. The glover has disappeared.
Reason for designation
Included as a virtuelly complete dovecote retaining its original potence, and part of a group of buildings at Gunley Hall.
Nearby in the register
- Gunley HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Gazebo at Gunley HallGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- LlwynyrhededdDomesticunder 1 mi
- Nantcribba CottagesDomestic1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.