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Dovecote at Garthewin
Llanfair Talhaiarn, Conwy, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 22 July 1998
- Locality
- Garthewin
- Community
- Llanfair Talhaiarn
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.21855, -3.62758
- Cadw reference
- 20176
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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 approximately 150m SW of Garthewin on a wooded rise.
History
Early C18 dovecote built to serve Garthewin and contemporary with its rebuilding under Dr Robert Wynne, Chancellor of St Asaph and Vicar of Gresford, c1700-1710.
Exterior
Square dovecote of two-and-a-half stages. Rubble wall construction (with original lime render still visible in places) with brick interior skin; currently roofless. Brick stringcourses between the stages, the upper one with off-set dentilations between 2 header courses, the lower one plain. Sandstone slab-copings to gabled sides, with rounded sandstone kneelers. The entrance is on the E side and has a plain oak pegged frame and timber lintel. Above is an oculus with brick voussoirs and an open, square window to the gable storey, with similar pegged frame; this arrangement is repeated on the other sides.
Interior
Brick nesting boxes, 125 to each face and each with a ledge in front; the dado is plastered and the brick interior was formerly limewashed.
Reason for designation
Listed notwithstanding its roofless condition for its special interest as a fine early C18 dovecote.
Nearby in the register
- Chapel at GarthewinReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- GarthewinDomesticunder 1 mi
- Terrace Walls, Steps and Gazebo at GarthewinGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- C-shaped Agricultural Complex at GarthewinDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.