Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Nos 1 and 2 Castle Madoc Cottages and attached Dovecote
Honddu Isaf, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 17 January 1963
- Locality
- Lower Chapel
- Town
- Brecon
- Community
- Honddu Isaf
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.02214, -3.42312
- Cadw reference
- 6739
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
Just N of Castell Madoc some 1.1 km N of Lower Chapel.
History
Pair of C19 estate cottages, now one, and attached C18 dovecote.
Exterior
Pair of cottages, now one house, whitewashed roughcast with slate eaves roof and whitewashed roughcast end stacks. Two storeys and attic, three bays. Large gabled dormer to left with triple casement. Windows are cambered-headed with narrow triple casements. Paired boarded doors, the left one under centre window, under single sloping-roofed porch on three chamfered timber posts. Overlights to doors, former No 1 to right, No 2 to left.
Rubble stone lean-to on left end linked to side of dovecote.
Dovecote is square, two-storey with stone-tiled pyramid roof and louvred pyramid roofed lantern with vane. Whitewashed front has door with timber lintel and first floor casement pair with timber lintel and stone sill. No windows on other sides, C20 inserted door to rear.
Interior
Interior of dovecote largely restored in C20 with new floor and roof timbers.
Reason for designation
Include as a pair of C19 estate cottages of definite character with attached C18 dovecote. Group value with Castell Madoc.
Nearby in the register
- Castle Madoc MoundMotteunder 1 mi
- The Coach House at Castell MadocDomesticunder 1 mi
- Castell MadocDomesticunder 1 mi
- Milestone near Castell MadocTransportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.