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
19467
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
03/03/1998
Date of Amendment
03/03/1998
Name of Property
Former SE Tower at Ewenny Priory (house)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Community
Ewenny
Town
Locality
Ewenny Priory
Easting
291307
Northing
177752
Street Side
Location
At the SE corner of Ewenny Priory (house) lawned garden adjacent to the haha forming the S boundary.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Precinct wall formerly linking the S gatehouse and the SE tower was demolished as part of early C19 landscaping and replaced by haha; ground level of garden raised at this time. SE tower at former SE angle of precinct wall is of same build as adjacent E stretch which belongs to period soon after Priory foundation in C12. After Dissolution the tower was converted to a dovecote.
Exterior
Rectangular tower surrounded by raised garden but original ground level visible with adjoining footings of original S precinct wall and battered base to tower. Now roofless. Wide S front formerly embattled incorporating arrow loops with string course below; single segmental pointed arched opening below string with wide ledge probably relating to conversion to dovecote; similar to W and E. N side has narrow pointed arched entrance of 2 chamfered orders, steps down from garden.
Interior
Interior has a complete set of stone nesting boxes to battlement level which is corbelled E and W. 2 protruding stone ledges for perching; boxes created by building out large flat stones from rear wall and supporting these by stone blocks, at alternating points on each storey, with rubble walls to nesting holes. Curved across the angles creating an almost oval interior. Stone floor to entry, now earth to interior. Walls stone-capped at top.
Reason for designation
Listed II* as an important part of the earliest precinct enclosure of Ewenny Priory and for its later unusual history as a dovecote, the interior of which survives almost intact; group value with the other buildings of Ewenny Priory, especially the E Precinct Wall.
Scheduled Ancient Monument Gm 190 (part).
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