Dovecote at Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 August 1993. Dovecote.
Dovecote at Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- lunar-landing-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Denbighshire
- Constituency
- Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 16 August 1993
- Type
- Dovecote
- Address
- Dovecote at Old Rectory, Llanbedr Dyffryn Clwyd
- OS grid reference
- SJ 140 598
- Coordinates
- 53.12895, -3.28603
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The dovecote at the Old Rectory is a square structure made of red brick in irregular bond, with the gable end facing the house largely rebuilt. It features a slate roof topped with a central octagonal timber lantern, which has a weathervane and dove-holes beneath camber-headed lights, although these were boarded up at the time of the survey. There are no dove-boxes visible on the exterior walls. The main front has modern French windows, along with a modern window in a cambered opening above. To the right side, there is another tall cambered opening with a modern window.
Adjacent to the dovecote on the right is a tall, contemporary garden wall, which has a later two-bay carthouse lean-to in front. This lean-to has a mono-pitch slate roof, with brick sides and a central pier, and features modern horizontal wooden boarding at the front. The wall extends for about 10 meters before ending irregularly. The ground floor includes arched recesses and a modern stair.
Local climate
Dovecote at Old Rectory sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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