Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Dovecote at Nanteos
Llanfarian, Ceredigion, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Rhydyfelin, Aberystwyth, Llanfarian, Ceredigion, designated on 24 February 2004.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 24 February 2004
- Locality
- Rhydyfelin
- Town
- Aberystwyth
- Community
- Llanfarian
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.38857, -4.02874
- Cadw reference
- 82514
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 1830 map "V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 178 Llanilar (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated immediately W of the stable block behind the mansion at Nanteos.
History
Dovecote possibly of 1816, possibly of c1830. The dovecote on 1819 estate map was E of old stables, possibly demolished for the new ones. Marked on estate map of c1830-35. In May 1816 plans for a Dove House were drawn by a local architect for a fee of £1, and Morris Jones, mason, conducted work on a 'pigeon house' in July 1816. There are references to an earlier pigeon house in 1795. The structure is known from photographs to have had a shallow-domed slate roof in 3 tiers.
Exterior
Circular pigeon roost tower in coursed rubble, formerly with a domed slate roof with 2 steps, now collapsed. Two storeys externally, with opening to E, formerly door, with brick voussoirs to flat head and flat-headed opening above possibly originally with brick head, now lost.
Interior
Lined in brick with bands of square dove-holes above projecting shelves, also in red brick.
Reason for designation
Included despite condition as a surviving estate dovecote, and for group value with the adjoining buildings.
Nearby in the register
- Stable court at Nanteos, including attached outbuilding to SNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Retaining wall to S and W of the Dairy at NanteosNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- NanteosDomesticunder 1 mi
- Wall running E of NanteosNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.