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Latitude: 53.2645 / 53°15'52"N
Longitude: -3.4629 / 3°27'46"W
OS Eastings: 302522
OS Northings: 375167
OS Grid: SJ025751
Mapcode National: GBR 4Z8P.2G
Mapcode Global: WH65H.S66P
Plus Code: 9C5R7G7P+RR
Entry Name: Gwernigron Dovecote
Listing Date: 16 November 1962
Last Amended: 6 December 2002
Grade: II*
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 1382
Building Class: Domestic
ID on this website: 300001382
Location: In Gwernigron farmyard.
County: Denbighshire
Community: Bodelwyddan
Community: Bodelwyddan
Locality: Gwernigron
Traditional County: Flintshire
Tagged with: Dovecote
This dovecote features the style of stepped gable often found on high status buildings in this region in the late C16 or early C17.
When surveyed in c1960 this dovecote was roofless and ruinous. It has since been re-roofed.
A dovecote in local hammer-dressed uncoursed limestone with selected larger stones and quoins and window or door dressings. The building is square with 4 similar gables, each with a deeply projecting corbel at the base of the gable and stepped copings.
At the centre of each gable is a 2-light opening for access by the pigeons. The door is on the W side, its sill about 2.5m above the ground.
The lowest part appears to have been an undercroft, with a door to the S and small windows to the other 3 sides. The window openings to E and W have grooves in the stonework suggesting they were glazed.
Pigeonholes in stone on all 4 sides, in 13 rows; about 400 holes in total. The dovecote appears to have had an undercroft, but nothing remains of any floor over an undercroft or of any potence.
A well preserved and restored example of a large sub-mediaeval dovecote, and a fine example of a type characteristic of the north-east of Wales.
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