Abercamlais Including Dovecote Cottage

The Abercamlais estate has been in the possession of the Williams family since Elizabethan times. In the early 18th century, the existing mansion was rebuilt as a three-storey block in a Neoclassical style. In the 19th century, a Tudorbethan porch was added, Sir George Gilbert Scott being suggested as the architect. The base of the pigeon house forms a bridge over a stream, and was fitted out as a latrine, a device Scourfield and Haslam consider, "simplicity itself, with useful and ornamental qualities into the bargain". The gardens attached to the house extend on both sides of the Usk and are connected by a grade II*-listed Elizabethan three arch stone bridge, and a Grade II-listed wrought…