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
6646
Building Number
 
Grade
II*  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
28/09/1961  
Date of Amendment
15/12/1995  
Name of Property
North Tower in inner front garden, with the garden boundary wall leading to the NE wing of the house  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Powys  
Community
Gwernyfed  
Town
 
Locality
Felindre  
Easting
318289  
Northing
236545  
Street Side
 
Location
Located at the NE corner of the inner courtyard in front of Old Gwernyfed, and attached at the rear to the range of farm buildings previously belonging to Old Gwernyfed. Formerly (pre-1800) set in a garden curtain wall.  

Description


Broad Class
Domestic  
Period
 

History
 

Exterior
Circular tower of 2 storeys of rubble sandstone, with a conical stone slated roof, possibly originally a dovecote on the upper floor as the S tower, but now plastered internally. Two 2-light hollow chamfered stone windows. The ground floor has a depressed Tudor chamfered doorcase at the garden corner, and the upper floor is approached independently by a walled dog-leg stair from a Tudor headed gate in the N garden wall, and originally had a raking roof. Similar chamfered stone doorcase into the tower at the head of the stair, with label over. Upper chamber ceiled. A rebuilt rubble stone wall leads from the tower to the corner of the NE wing of the house.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Included as an important garden feature in the Grade I assemblage of historic buildings at Old Gwernyfed.  

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