Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
6739
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
17/01/1963
Date of Amendment
16/02/2005
Name of Property
Nos 1 and 2 Castle Madoc Cottages and attached Dovecote
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Honddu Isaf
Town
Brecon
Locality
Lower Chapel
Easting
302449
Northing
236923
Street Side
Location
Just N of Castell Madoc some 1.1 km N of Lower Chapel.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Pair of C19 estate cottages, now one, and attached C18 dovecote.
Exterior
Pair of cottages, now one house, whitewashed roughcast with slate eaves roof and whitewashed roughcast end stacks. Two storeys and attic, three bays. Large gabled dormer to left with triple casement. Windows are cambered-headed with narrow triple casements. Paired boarded doors, the left one under centre window, under single sloping-roofed porch on three chamfered timber posts. Overlights to doors, former No 1 to right, No 2 to left.
Rubble stone lean-to on left end linked to side of dovecote.
Dovecote is square, two-storey with stone-tiled pyramid roof and louvred pyramid roofed lantern with vane. Whitewashed front has door with timber lintel and first floor casement pair with timber lintel and stone sill. No windows on other sides, C20 inserted door to rear.
Interior
Interior of dovecote largely restored in C20 with new floor and roof timbers.
Reason for designation
Include as a pair of C19 estate cottages of definite character with attached C18 dovecote. Group value with Castell Madoc.
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