Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
1056
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
24/10/1950
Date of Amendment
29/06/2000
Name of Property
Dovecote at Foxhall Newydd including adjoining Walls
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Denbighshire
Community
Henllan
Town
Locality
Henllan
Easting
303020
Northing
367482
Street Side
Location
Located a short distance to the E of Foxhall Newydd, some 250m W of Foxhall.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Early C17 dovecote, built to serve Foxhall Newydd, erected by John Panton, Chief Secretary to the Lord Keeper and Recorder of Denbigh between 1592 and 1608. The adjoining rubble walls basically contemporary or near contemporary, though they have been extensively repaired in recent years.
Exterior
Rectangular dovecote with gabled ends; of limestone rubble construction with chamfered plinth. The entrance faces the house ruins to the SW and there is a breach in the NE gable; small square openings to each gable.
Interior
There are tiers of nesting niches built in a grid around the interior.
Reason for designation
Listed, notwithstanding condition, for its special interest as an early C17 dovecote with associated walls.
Group value with Foxhall Newydd.
Scheduled Ancient Monument. (AM 55 RCAM 221.)
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