17051

 

II*  

Designated  

28/09/1961  

15/12/1995  

South tower in the inner front garden with garden wall running to SW ring of the house  

 

Powys  

Gwernyfed  

 

Felindre  

318269  

236515  

 

Located at the SE corner of the inner courtyard in front of Old Gwernyfed.  

Domestic  

 

 

Circular tower of 2 storeys of rubble sandstone, with a conical stone slated roof, the upper floor containing a dovecote of 10 tiers of nestboxes. Floor missing. Stone string at plinth level, and two blocked 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 S garden wall, and originally had a raking roof. Similar chamfered stone doorcase into the tower at the head of the stair, with label with dropped out-turned ends over. Rubble stone garden boundary wall approximately 1.8m high leads from the tower to the corner of the SW wing of the house, including a doorway adjacent to that wing.  

 

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