Parciau dovecote is a Grade II* listed building in the Isle of Anglesey local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 12 May 1970. A Post-Medieval Dovecote.
Parciau dovecote
- WRENN ID
- winding-rubble-acorn
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Isle of Anglesey
- Constituency
- Ynys Môn MP: Llinos Medi (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 12 May 1970
- Type
- Dovecote
- Period
- Post-Medieval
- Address
- Parciau dovecote, Llaneugrad
- OS grid reference
- SH 497 839
- Coordinates
- 53.33091, -4.25757
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Parciau dovecote is a 17th-century, two-storey structure built in a square plan, featuring a columbarium on the upper floor. Each wall has a gabled design with carved finials, and the building is topped with a square cupola that has four gablets. It is constructed from gritstone rubble masonry, with some limestone and gritstone dressings, and the upper storey is marked by a heavy string course.
The entrance is located on the west wall, accessed through a shallow pointed arched doorway, above which is a panel inscribed with "IEE 160-". The other walls each have a small ground floor window; the south window has a shallow pointed arched head, while the others are rectangular, with the north window being reset. The columbarium features a diamond-shaped window on each wall. The gables are adorned with carved finials, and the cupola includes square angle piers with both square and round intermediate columns that have moulded capitals and bases, supporting plain lintels with moulded cornices. The gablets also have carved finials, and the cupola is covered by a solid stone vault.
The interior was not inspected during the survey, but it has been recorded by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales as containing a stone stair in a passage along the north and west walls. The columbarium has nests in each wall, totaling 150, and is topped by a pyramidal corbelled vault.
Local climate
Parciau dovecote sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,070 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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.
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