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
5373
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
12/05/1970
Date of Amendment
Name of Property
Parciau dovecote
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Isle of Anglesey
Community
Llaneugrad
Town
Locality
Llaneugrad
Easting
249759
Northing
383930
Street Side
Location
In an isolated rural location, set back from the W side of the lane leading to the house and home farm at Parciau; to W of Marian glas
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Early C17 dovecote for the adjacent Parciau estate; practically unaltered.
Exterior
C17 2 storey dovecote built to a square plan with columbarium in the upper storey. Each of the walls is gabled, with carved finials and the building is surmounted by a square cupola with four gablets. Built of gritstone rubble masonry with some limestone and gritstone dressings; the upper storey delineated by a heavy string course. The entrance is through a shallow pointed arched doorway in the W wall above which is a panel inscribed IEE 160-. Each of the other walls has a small ground floor window; S window has a shallow pointed arched head, the others are rectangular, the N window reset. The columbarium has a diamond shaped window in each wall. The gables have carved finials and the cupola has square angle piers with square and round intermediate colums with moulded capitals and bases supporting plain lintels with moulded cornices; the gablets have carved finials and the cupola is roofed by a solid stone vault.
Interior
Interior not inspected at the time of the survey, but recorded, by RCAHM, as having a stone stair in a passage in the N and W walls. The columbarium has nests in each wall, 150 in total and is surmounted by a pyramidal corbelled vault.
Reason for designation
Listed as an exceptionally well detailed and well preserved C17 dovecote.
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