Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
19561
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
26/10/1953
Date of Amendment
20/03/1998
Name of Property
Dovecote at Gunley Hall
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Forden with Leighton and Trelystan
Town
Forden
Locality
Gunley
Easting
326170
Northing
301064
Street Side
N
Location
Located to the E of the former stables of Gunley Hall, in a small wooded area in the corner of a field.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Built late C18 or early C19 for the Pryce family of Gunley Hall.
Exterior
Built of brick, octagonal in plan with pilaster buttresses stressing the angles extending to full height. Pyramidal hipped slate roof and boarded eaves. Entrance is a boarded door on the NE side facing the stables.
Interior
Circular internally, with 17 tiers of nest boxes above the low plinth, each with a slightly projecting brick flight ledge, 40 boxes in each tier, totalling approximately 660 nests. In the centre, a stone-built drum, approximately 80cm high, carrying the potence, with a braced frame to the perimeter ladder. The potence is supported by a bearing in cross trees level with the wall top. The glover has disappeared.
Reason for designation
Included as a virtuelly complete dovecote retaining its original potence, and part of a group of buildings at Gunley Hall.
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