Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
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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