Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Summerhouse and dovecote in garden of Plas Rhianfa
Cwm Cadnant, Isle of Anglesey, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 6 September 2004
- Locality
- Glyn Garth
- Community
- Cwm Cadnant
- Unitary authority
- Isle of Anglesey
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.23811, -4.14301
- Cadw reference
- 83052
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 1896 "Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Set back from the SE side of the A545 Beaumaris Road out of Menai Bridge towards Beaumaris.
History
C19.
Exterior
Small summerhouse and dovecot. French gothic/chinoiserie style. Central section is circular (but for its straight rear wall), and open fronted. Conical fish-scale slate roof, swept up to a fleche, and with two tiers of lucarnes (the dove entrances), supported on timber base, with open front and glazed sides. From the sides, two little wings extend, these are open-work in timber posts, with nesting boxes in the short rear walls. A small terrace in front of the summerhouse is bounded by balustrading between square piers with shallow pyramidal copings.
Interior
Central section has tiled floor and wooden bench against back wall.
Reason for designation
Listed as a highly imaginative garden building, a charming exercise in decorative gothic, and an important component of this Victorian terraced garden.
Nearby in the register
- Gate-house, with gate-piers and retaining wall to courtyard, Plas RhianfaDomesticunder 1 mi
- Plas RhianfaDomesticunder 1 mi
- Lodge at Craig-y-DonDomesticunder 1 mi
- Milestone below Min y TwrTransportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.