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
5247
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
16/09/1992
Date of Amendment
Name of Property
Dovecote at Ynysmaengwyn
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Bryn-Crug
Town
Locality
Bryn Crug
Easting
259816
Northing
302328
Street Side
NW
Location
Ynysmaengwyn stood in its own grounds approximately half-way between Tywyn and Bryn Crug. The dovecote stands at the W end of the former estate buildings, W of the site of the demolished house, and near the entrance to the former walled garden.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Ynysmaengwyn was a fine brick house rebuilt for the Corbett family from 1758, some earlier C18 agricultural buildings being retained, the whole forming an exceptionally fine 'U'-plan group. The house, which had been left to the local authority, was neglected and demolished in 1964, the ballroom wing demolished as late as 1989. The dovecote was an addition to the estate made in the later C18.
Exterior
Built of local stone, the main front, facing E, of well coursed squared and tooled stone. The central arched opening has graded voussoirs, the opening later reduced to a single door. Irregular slate hipped roof, recently renewed, over a coved eaves course without gutters, rising to a central louvred glover, with its own slated hipped roof.
Interior
The interior is lined with nest boxes constructed with brick, each tier separated by a slate flight ledge. The boxes are 20 high on three walls and 12 high on the entrance wall, toralling 864 nest boxes. The roof structure has been reconstructed in recent times, without a central potence.
Reason for designation
Included as a well preserved C18 dovecote and a good example of this building type.
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