Summerhouse and dovecote in garden of Plas Rhianfa is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Anglesey local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 6 September 2004. Summerhouse, dovecote.
Summerhouse and dovecote in garden of Plas Rhianfa
- WRENN ID
- pitched-string-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Isle of Anglesey
- Constituency
- Ynys Môn MP: Llinos Medi (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 6 September 2004
- Type
- Summerhouse, dovecote
- Address
- Summerhouse and dovecote in garden of Plas Rhianfa, Glyn Garth, Cwm Cadnant
- OS grid reference
- SH 570 733
- Coordinates
- 53.23813, -4.14301
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The building is a small summerhouse and dovecote located in the garden of Plas Rhianfa. It is designed in a French gothic and chinoiserie style. The central section is circular, except for its straight rear wall, and features an open front. It has a conical fish-scale slate roof that rises to a fleche and includes two tiers of lucarnes, which are the dove entrances, supported on a timber base with an open front and glazed sides.
On either side of the central section, there are two small wings made of open-work timber posts, each containing nesting boxes in their short rear walls. In front of the summerhouse, there is a small terrace that is enclosed by balustrading set between square piers topped with shallow pyramidal copings. Inside, the central section has a tiled floor and a wooden bench against the back wall.
Local climate
Summerhouse and dovecote in garden of Plas Rhianfa sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
- 1 Dovecot, Now Summerhouse, at Wintershall
- 2 Dovecote and Adjacent Outbuilding East of Dean House Farmhouse
- 3 Dovecote and attached range to left at south-east corner of farmyards at Glynllifon College Farm
- 4 Dovecote in the grounds of Plas Newydd
- 5 Dovecote Approximately 80 Metres to South West of the Isle
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings