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
1382
Building Number
 
Grade
II*  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
16/11/1962  
Date of Amendment
06/12/2002  
Name of Property
Gwernigron Dovecote  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Denbighshire  
Community
Bodelwyddan  
Town
 
Locality
Gwernigron  
Easting
302522  
Northing
375167  
Street Side
 
Location
In Gwernigron farmyard.  

Description


Broad Class
Domestic  
Period
 

History
This dovecote features the style of stepped gable often found on high status buildings in this region in the late C16 or early C17. When surveyed in c1960 this dovecote was roofless and ruinous. It has since been re-roofed.  

Exterior
A dovecote in local hammer-dressed uncoursed limestone with selected larger stones and quoins and window or door dressings. The building is square with 4 similar gables, each with a deeply projecting corbel at the base of the gable and stepped copings. At the centre of each gable is a 2-light opening for access by the pigeons. The door is on the W side, its sill about 2.5m above the ground. The lowest part appears to have been an undercroft, with a door to the S and small windows to the other 3 sides. The window openings to E and W have grooves in the stonework suggesting they were glazed.  

Interior
Pigeonholes in stone on all 4 sides, in 13 rows; about 400 holes in total. The dovecote appears to have had an undercroft, but nothing remains of any floor over an undercroft or of any potence.  

Reason for designation
A well preserved and restored example of a large sub-mediaeval dovecote, and a fine example of a type characteristic of the north-east of Wales.  

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