Dovecote at Ynysmaengwyn is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 September 1992. A N/A Dovecote.
Dovecote at Ynysmaengwyn
- WRENN ID
- noble-spandrel-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 16 September 1992
- Type
- Dovecote
- Period
- N/A
- Address
- Dovecote at Ynysmaengwyn, Bryn Crug, Bryn-Crug, Gwynedd
- OS grid reference
- SH 598 023
- Coordinates
- 52.60062, -4.07131
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Dovecote at Ynysmaengwyn is a Grade II listed structure built of local stone. The main front, which faces east, features well-coursed squared and tooled stone. It has a central arched opening with graded voussoirs, although this opening has been reduced to a single door. The roof is an irregular slate hipped design that has been recently renewed, and it includes a coved eaves course without gutters, rising to a central louvred glover topped with its own slated hipped roof.
Inside, the dovecote is lined with brick nest boxes, with each tier separated by a slate flight ledge. There are 20 boxes high on three walls and 12 boxes high on the entrance wall, totaling 864 nest boxes. The roof structure has been reconstructed in recent times and does not include a central potence.
Local climate
Dovecote at Ynysmaengwyn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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.
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