Description1. 17th century, timber frame and brick, slate roof and cupola, built on piers.
CS Briggs, NMR, 3 November 2000
2. This building, part of Penpont Manor [NPRN 16026] is situated just south of the River Usk and north of the A40, 6km west of Brecon. It lies 100m to the west of the main building and just north-west of the Hay Barn [NPRN 402698]. Jones and Smith and AJ Parkinson seem to describe the structure as a Granary, but Haslam and the CADW listing of 1963 describe it as a Dovecote. It is a square building, built on piers, with thin timber-framed, brick-panelled walls and a neo-gothic lantern on its pyramidal slate roof. It may be of the 17th century [CADW] though Jones and Smith date it as 18th century and Parkinson c.1800.
(Sources: R Haslam, The Buildings of Wales: Powys, 1979, p. 368; CADW listed buildings database, 17 January 1963; NMR Site files, AJ Parkinson, 25 May 1995; Brycheiniog 1968-9, Jones and Smith, 'The Houses of Breconshire', p. 77).
Ian Archer, RCAHMW, 1st March 2005