Dovecote at Forge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 8 February 1996. Commercial building.
Dovecote at Forge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- fossil-corbel-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Pembrokeshire Coast National Park
- Constituency
- Mid and South Pembrokeshire MP: Henry Tufnell (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 8 February 1996
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- Dovecote at Forge Cottage, St Twynnells, Stackpole and Castlemartin
- OS grid reference
- SR 955 969
- Coordinates
- 51.6339, -4.95616
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The dovecote at Forge Cottage is a structure made of uncoursed random rubble masonry, consisting of sandstone and limestone. It stands approximately 3 meters tall to the base of the roof, which is neatly corbelled in smaller courses and has a conical or domed shape, although the top courses are missing.
The northern doorway has been damaged due to recent use of the building as a calf shelter, but it has been repaired and a timber frame has been inserted. The damage suggests that the opening originally featured a low segmental arch.
Internally, the dovecote has a diameter of about 2.7 meters and shows no evidence of a potence. It contains more than 200 pigeon-holes arranged in ten rows, with up to 25 holes per row, and there are no shelves present. The floor is paved with rough stone, which is likely a recent addition.
Local climate
Dovecote at Forge Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,140 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 2 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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