Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Date of Designation
28/09/1961
Date of Amendment
15/12/1995
Name of Property
South tower in the inner front garden with garden wall running to SW ring of the house
Location
Located at the SE corner of the inner courtyard in front of Old Gwernyfed.
Exterior
Circular tower of 2 storeys of rubble sandstone, with a conical stone slated roof, the upper floor containing a dovecote of 10 tiers of nestboxes. Floor missing. Stone string at plinth level, and two blocked 2-light hollow chamfered stone windows. The ground floor has a depressed Tudor chamfered doorcase at the garden corner, and the upper floor is approached independently by a walled dog-leg stair from a Tudor headed gate in the S garden wall, and originally had a raking roof. Similar chamfered stone doorcase into the tower at the head of the stair, with label with dropped out-turned ends over.
Rubble stone garden boundary wall approximately 1.8m high leads from the tower to the corner of the SW wing of the house, including a doorway adjacent to that wing.
Reason for designation
Included as an important garden feature in the Grade I assemblage of historic buildings at Old Gwernyfed.
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