Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Dovecote at Penpont
Trallong, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II*
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 17 January 1963
- Locality
- Penpont
- Town
- Brecon
- Community
- Trallong
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.94806, -3.49949
- Cadw reference
- 6784
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 in field behind the hay-barn at Penpont.
History
C18 timber-framed dovecote raised on stone piers, with first floor chamber and dove access through tiny openings in the glazed cupola. Said to be marked on a map of 1738.
Exterior
Dovecote, square, colourwashed plastered first floor raised on four square colourwashed piers. Low door in E side for ladder access. The plaster is said to be on brick. Pyramid stone tiled roof with flat top carrying fine octagonal timber cupola with pointed glazed openings, with timber Y-tracery and small dove holes beneath. Ogee leaded octagonal dome.
Reason for designation
Graded II* for its exceptional architectural interest as a dovecote of unusual design.
Nearby in the register
- Hay Barn at PenpontAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Workshop block at PenpontAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Penpont Bridge including two doorways in attached wall to NTransportunder 1 mi
- The StablesDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.