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
319
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
06/11/1962
Date of Amendment
18/07/2001
Name of Property
Dovecote at Gop Farm
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Flintshire
Community
Trelawnyd and Gwaenysgor
Town
Locality
Gop Hill
Easting
308346
Northing
380012
Street Side
Location
In a field on the N side of Gop Farm. Gop Farm is approximately 0.8km NW of Trelawnyd church and reached by farm road N of the A5151.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Said to be c1600, although it may have been built at least a quarter of a century later as a doorway in the garden wall of the farm is dated 1622 and belonged to a farmhouse of that date. In the C19 the area immediately E of the dovecote was woodland belonging to the Mostyn Estate and known as Gop Walk.
Exterior
A tall square dovecote of rubble stone with larger quoins, and stepped gables. The roof is now missing. Beneath eaves level is a projecting thin stone band. On the W side is a lintelled doorway (the lintel missing) and a former loft opening in the gable bricked up. The W wall has an inserted opening with brick jambs and wooden lintel.
Interior
The walls have stone ledges and nesting boxes up to the level of the eaves.
Reason for designation
Listed as a rare surviving C17 dovecote prominently sited at the foot of Gop Hill.
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