The Pigeon House and railings at Cilwendeg Farm is a Grade II* listed building in the Pembrokeshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 23 January 1976. Demolished house.
The Pigeon House and railings at Cilwendeg Farm
- WRENN ID
- tilted-kitchen-shade
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1976
- Type
- Demolished house
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This is an 1835 pigeon and poultry house, constructed of rubble stone with slate dressings and slate roofs. The building comprises a ten-bay central section with lofted wings and two-storey end pavilions. The central section and pavilions share similar ground and first floor designs, each featuring a pair of arched openings. These arches are framed by Cilgerran stone arches and rubble tympana, disguising the floor levels. The ground-floor left pavilion has a blocked door and window, while the centre has a door and blocked door, and the right pavilion has a door and blocked door. The pavilions are distinguished by high parapets incorporating triple slate shelves; a central roundel with cut voussoirs interrupts the shelf on the centre section. Above the roundel is a moulded cornice and a parapet with slate coping supporting square angle pedestals, a shallow-curved centrepiece with moulded coping, a plaque reading 'Built AD 1835', a moulded cap, and an iron urn finial. The slate tiers extend along the side walls. The linking wings are lower in height, with two arched openings on the ground floor, a sill course beneath two lunette openings, two slate shelves above, and a parapet coping. The end walls of the wings contain first-floor windows. The rear elevation is plain, with slate pedimental courses marking each gable. The pavilions incorporate first-floor windows, while the centre block has a long first-floor window, and there is a blank upper window. The wings feature blank ground-floor windows and square loft windows beneath the eaves. All other openings have cambered heads and stone voussoirs.
The front yard is enclosed by the remains of a remarkable enclosure, featuring a low rubble front wall and tall rubble pyramid piers capped with slate urn finials, originally placed between six bays of tall slate railings. Only two sections of the railings remain. A wooden gate with matching slate rails is present on the left. The railings are set upon a rubble stone terrace, with short return walls and surviving sections of rails on the north end return.
Internally, most rooms contained two tiers of large, square, slate-lined nesting boxes, each with a slate front step, one row at ground level and another approximately one meter above. There were no nesting boxes on the front wall. The pavilions have slate floors and a similar arrangement on the first floor, including a slate shelf at approximately 1.5 meters. The left connecting wing had no nesting boxes on the ground floor but some at the first floor, with a door leading into the left pavilion. The ground floor has had its floor removed. The right connecting wing is inaccessible. The centre section originally featured larger nesting boxes on the ground floor in two tiers, two tiers of boxes and a slate shelf on the first floor, and five slate shelves on the second floor, all of which have had their floors removed.
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