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
83230
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
15/11/2004  
Date of Amendment
15/11/2004  
Name of Property
Garden & courtyard walls on W and SW sides of Doldowlod House (partly in Nantmel)  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Powys  
Community
Llanyre  
Town
 
Locality
Doldowlod  
Easting
299760  
Northing
262458  
Street Side
 
Location
On the W and SW sides of the house.  

Description


Broad Class
 
Period
 

History
Doldowlod was purchased by the engineer James Watt of Soho, Birmingham, in 1803 and was developed as a country residence by his son James Watt junior (1769-1848) of Birmingham in the second quarter of the C19. The present house was built in the 1840s as an extension to an existing farmhouse, which was demolished when the house was further extended in the 1870s. The garden walls were constructed in the 1870s.  

Exterior
An L-shaped garden wall is attached to the NW end of the house, of rubble stone with freestone coping. It has a square pier to the angle, and similar gate piers leading to the yard on the N side of the house. The wall continues on the NW side of the house, forming the boundary of the formal garden, and then continues as a ha-ha of rock-faced stone oriented in a NW-SE direction, parallel with the front of the house. The ha-ha has a slightly recessed gateway with square piers and wooden posts to a barred wooden gate. Further R are lately added steps, directly in front of the entrance to the house, and the ha-ha continues to the end of the formal garden, beyond which it continues as a rubble-stone field wall.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Listed for group value with Doldowlod House and associated outbuildings.  

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