Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Garden & courtyard walls on W and SW sides of Doldowlod House (partly in Nantmel)
Llanyre, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Doldowlod, Llanyre, Powys, designated on 15 November 2004.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 15 November 2004
- Locality
- Doldowlod
- Community
- Llanyre
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.25114, -3.46980
- Cadw reference
- 83230
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)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 179 Rhyader (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
On the W and SW sides of the house.
History
Doldowlod was purchased by the engineer James Watt of Soho, Birmingham, in 1803 and was developed as a country residence by his son James Watt junior (1769-1848) of Birmingham in the second quarter of the C19. The present house was built in the 1840s as an extension to an existing farmhouse, which was demolished when the house was further extended in the 1870s. The garden walls were constructed in the 1870s.
Exterior
An L-shaped garden wall is attached to the NW end of the house, of rubble stone with freestone coping. It has a square pier to the angle, and similar gate piers leading to the yard on the N side of the house. The wall continues on the NW side of the house, forming the boundary of the formal garden, and then continues as a ha-ha of rock-faced stone oriented in a NW-SE direction, parallel with the front of the house. The ha-ha has a slightly recessed gateway with square piers and wooden posts to a barred wooden gate. Further R are lately added steps, directly in front of the entrance to the house, and the ha-ha continues to the end of the formal garden, beyond which it continues as a rubble-stone field wall.
Reason for designation
Listed for group value with Doldowlod House and associated outbuildings.
Nearby in the register
- Garden and courtyard walls on W and SW side of Doldowlod House (partly in Llanyre)Domesticunder 1 mi
- Doldowlod House (part in Llanyre)Domesticunder 1 mi
- Doldowlod House (part in Nantmel)No class recordedunder 1 mi
- Detached service wing on N side of Doldowlod HouseNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.