Dovecote at Bolgoed is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 17 January 1963. Dovecote.
Dovecote at Bolgoed
- WRENN ID
- burning-granite-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 17 January 1963
- Type
- Dovecote
- Address
- Dovecote at Bolgoed, Libanus, Glyn Tarell, Powys
- OS grid reference
- SO 003 270
- Coordinates
- 51.93318, -3.45105
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The dovecote at Bolgoed is a structure made of rubble stone with a stone-tiled roof. It has a square base featuring a cambered-headed door at the front and a small cambered-headed window on the right side, both of which are adorned with stone voussoirs. The corners of the dovecote have stone-tiled haunches leading to an octagonal shape. The front of the octagonal dovecote includes a single ogee-pointed opening, and there are dove-holes located under the eaves of the stone-tiled roof.
Local climate
Dovecote at Bolgoed sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,330 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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