Former Stable-Range including Dovecote at Bryn-y-Pys is a Grade II listed building in the Wrexham local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 October 1991. A C19 Former stables.
Former Stable-Range including Dovecote at Bryn-y-Pys
- WRENN ID
- stark-timber-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1991
- Type
- Former stables
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The former stable range at Bryn-y-Pys is a large, two-storey building that includes stables and a coach-house on the right, which has been partly converted into service accommodation. To the left is a later stable range of lesser height, featuring an octagonal dovecote at the far left end. The building is constructed of red brick with slate roofs, which are hipped on the main block.
The main block has a prominent central bay that is advanced and pedimented, topped with a cupola. It features a tall segmental carriage arch with stressed voussoirs, a keystone, and an impost band. There is a blind oculus in the pediment with a cornice. The octagonal timber cupola has an ogival swept roof and a weather vane dated 1840. The original design was likely symmetrical around this central pediment, with deep loft openings flanked by blind recesses, all having cambered heads. However, this pattern has been altered on the right side by the addition of three horned sash windows, and a later 19th-century square stair tower that projects from the left corner, featuring a pyramidal roof, dentilled eaves, and rounded corners. The ground floor has larger sash windows, which may also be insertions.
Inside, there is a full-height lobby with six-panel doors behind the carriage arch, which probably originally allowed access to the rear yard but now has round-headed French doors. The steep-roofed single-storey stable range to the left is from the late 19th century, but a vertical break suggests it may have been built in more than one phase. It has an entrance to the left of centre with recessed diagonally-set doors under a cambered arch.
The dovecote on the far left is built in English garden wall bond brick and features a timber cupola similar to that of the main stable block. It has circular openings on alternate faces and a low cambered doorway. At the rear of the dovecote, a low and broken section of brick wall curves around, which formerly enclosed a rear yard.
The stable range retains its original stalls with iron stanchions and ball finials. It has an elaborate three-bay timber roof with roll-moulded hammerbeams that spring from stone corbels, supporting queen struts to arched braced collars. The octagonal dovecote contains approximately 80 dove boxes and has timber piers at its centre, which once supported a potence.
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