Hygga House Dovecote, Trellech

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Hygga House Dovecote
Dovecote at Hygga House, Trellech.jpg
"a particularly fine and complete example"
TypeDovecote
LocationHygga, Trellech, Monmouthshire, Wales
Coordinates 51°43′45″N2°44′46″W / 51.7292°N 2.7462°W / 51.7292; -2.7462 Coordinates: 51°43′45″N2°44′46″W / 51.7292°N 2.7462°W / 51.7292; -2.7462
Builtlate 16th century
Architectural style(s) Vernacular
Governing bodyPrivately owned
Listed Building – Grade II*
Official nameDovecote at Hygga House
Designated1 May 1952
Reference no.2071
Official nameDovecote at Hygga Farm
Reference no.MM150
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Location of Hygga House Dovecote in Monmouthshire

The Dovecote, Hygga, Trellech, Monmouthshire is a late 16th-century dovecote, in an unusually complete state of preservation. Part of the service buildings for the, now demolished, Hygga House, the dovecote is a Grade II* listed building and a scheduled monument.

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History and description

The origin of the name Hygga is Old Norse, meaning "to comfort". [1] In the 16th century, a substantial mansion, Hygga House, [2] stood on the site but it has since been demolished. [2] [lower-alpha 1] The dovecote, along with a large barn [4] and a shippon and stables, [5] comprised a range of service buildings for the house. [2] In a poor state of repair for over two centuries, the dovecote was fully restored in the 1980s and now forms a rare example of a complete 16th-century dovecote. [6] [lower-alpha 2] Sir Cyril Fox and Lord Raglan, in their three-volume guide Monmouthshire Houses , note the rarity of such dovecotes within the county, citing one at Llantellen, Skenfrith as the only other known example. [8] The architectural historian John Newman gives a dating for the dovecote, and the associated barns, of c.1600. [9]

The dovecote is constructed of lime-washed stone rubble, with a "stone-slated conical roof". [2] Unusually for a dovecote, it has windows with ovolo mullions. [6] Above the windows are six tiers of nesting boxes, set into the wall. [6] The dovecote is a Scheduled monument, [10] [11] and a Grade II* listed building, its listing recording the dovecote as a "particularly fine and complete example". [6]

Footnotes

  1. The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales suggests that the house may have had monastic origins. [3]
  2. Although Cadw clearly records the restoration as taking place "in the 1980s", Elisabeth Whittle, in her study, A Guide to Ancient and Historic Wales: Glamorgan and Gwent, published in 1992, described it as "a circular stone dovecote, whose tiled roof has fallen in". [7]

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