North Tower in inner front garden, with the garden boundary wall leading to the NE wing of the house
A Grade II* Listed Building in Gwernyfed, Powys
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Coordinates
Latitude: 52.0213 / 52°1'16"N
Longitude: -3.1922 / 3°11'31"W
OS Eastings: 318289
OS Northings: 236545
OS Grid: SO182365
Mapcode National: GBR YY.GW99
Mapcode Global: VH6BP.MG8B
Plus Code: 9C4R2RC5+G4
Entry Name: North Tower in inner front garden, with the garden boundary wall leading to the NE wing of the house
Listing Date: 28 September 1961
Grade: II*
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 6646
Building Class: Domestic
ID on this website: 300006646
Location: Located at the NE corner of the inner courtyard in front of Old Gwernyfed, and attached at the rear to the range of farm buildings previously belonging to Old Gwernyfed. Formerly (pre-1800) set in a
County: Powys
Community: Gwernyfed
Community: Gwernyfed
Locality: Felindre
Traditional County: Brecknockshire
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Building
Exterior
Circular tower of 2 storeys of rubble sandstone, with a conical stone slated roof, possibly originally a dovecote on the upper floor as the S tower, but now plastered internally. Two 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 N garden wall, and originally had a raking roof. Similar chamfered stone doorcase into the tower at the head of the stair, with label over. Upper chamber ceiled.
A rebuilt rubble stone wall leads from the tower to the corner of the NE wing of the house.
Reasons for Listing
Included as an important garden feature in the Grade I assemblage of historic buildings at Old Gwernyfed.
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