Nos 1 and 2 Castle Madoc Cottages and attached Dovecote, Honddu Isaf, Powys

Coordinates

Latitude: 52.0221 / 52°1'19"N

Longitude: -3.423 / 3°25'22"W

OS Eastings: 302451

OS Northings: 236924

OS Grid: SO024369

Mapcode National: GBR YM.GRKH

Mapcode Global: VH6BK.MF7P

Plus Code: 9C4R2HCG+VQ

Entry Name: Nos 1 and 2 Castle Madoc Cottages and attached Dovecote

Listing Date: 17 January 1963

Last Amended: 16 February 2005

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 6739

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300006739

Location: Just N of Castell Madoc some 1.1 km N of Lower Chapel.

County: Powys

Town: Brecon

Community: Honddu Isaf

Locality: Lower Chapel

Traditional County: Brecknockshire

Tagged with: Cottage

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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.

Reasons for Listing

Include as a pair of C19 estate cottages of definite character with attached C18 dovecote. Group value with Castell Madoc.

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Other nearby listed buildings

II The Coach House at Castell Madoc
Just NW of Castell Madoc on the side of the B4520 some 1.1 km N of Lower Chapel.
II Castell Madoc
In extensive grounds on the NE side of the B4520 some 1.1 km N of Lower Chapel.
II Milestone near Castell Madoc
On the NE side of the B4520 at Castell Madoc some 1.2km N of Lower Chapel.
II Bridge to SW of Traihirion (partly in Merthyr Cynog community)
On northern edge of Lower Chapel, spanning the Afon Honddu approximately 0.5km upstream from the road bridge over the river; on the boundary between Honddu Isaf and Merthyr Cynog communities. Reached
II Bridge to SW of Traihirion (partly in Honddu Isaf community)
On northern edge of Lower Chapel, spanning the River Honddu approximately 0.5km upstream from the road bridge over the river; on the boundary between Honddu Isaf and Merthyr Cynog communities. Reache
II Bridge House
Near the Afon Honddu on the E side of the B4520 just S of Lower Chapel.
II Milestone on B4520
To the S of Lower Chapel on the S side of the bridge over the Afon Honddu.

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Nos 1 and 2 Castle Madoc Cottages and attached Dovecote

A Grade II Listed Building in Honddu Isaf, Powys