Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Dovecote at Coed Morgan
Gobion Fawr, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 15 March 2000
- Locality
- Coed Morgan
- Town
- Abergavenny
- Community
- Gobion Fawr
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.80191, -2.92636
- Cadw reference
- 23009
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 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated on front lawn at Coed Morgan, which is on E side of lane running S from Llanddewi Rhydderch-Llanarth road, just S of junction.
History
Dovecote in front of Coed-Morgan, a substantial late Georgian farmhouse, probably late C18. Coed Morgan is marked on the 1843 Llanarth tithe map as owned by Robert Hughes.
Exterior
Dovecote, rubble stone, square plan with pyramid stone-tiled roof. Battered walls, stone tile shelf under eaves and N door with timber lintel. First floor door above, infilled.
Interior
Rubble stone walls to ground floor, no internal floor, brick lining above with stone-tile shelves to 10 layers of nesting boxes.
Reason for designation
Included as a rare example in the area of a small dovecote.
Nearby in the register
- The Great HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Glanffrwd MillIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Barn at Glanffrwd MillAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Coed-y-gelliDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.