Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
North Tower in inner front garden, with the garden boundary wall leading to the NE wing of the house
Gwernyfed, Powys, Wales
A Grade II* listed building in Felindre, Gwernyfed, Powys, designated on 28 September 1961.
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
- 52.02128, -3.19221
- Cadw reference
- 6646
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1856 · 42. Brecon. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · 214 Talgarth (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Located at the NE corner of the inner courtyard in front of Old Gwernyfed, and attached at the rear to the range of farm buildings previously belonging to Old Gwernyfed. Formerly (pre-1800) set in a garden curtain wall.
Exterior
Circular tower of 2 storeys of rubble sandstone, with a conical stone slated roof, possibly originally a dovecote on the upper floor as the S tower, but now plastered internally. Two 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 N garden wall, and originally had a raking roof. Similar chamfered stone doorcase into the tower at the head of the stair, with label over. Upper chamber ceiled.
A rebuilt rubble stone wall leads from the tower to the corner of the NE wing of the house.
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
- Boundary walls, gatepiers and gate to forecourt and driveway at Old GwernyfedDomesticunder 1 mi
- Former Barn and Cowhouse Ranges Adjoining Old Gwernyfed HouseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- South tower in the inner front garden with garden wall running to SW ring of the houseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.