Oxwich Castle Dovecote is a Grade II listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 9 June 1952. Dovecote.
Oxwich Castle Dovecote
- WRENN ID
- waning-bronze-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swansea
- Constituency
- Gower MP: Tonia Antoniazzi (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 9 June 1952
- Type
- Dovecote
- Address
- Oxwich Castle Dovecote, Penrice
- OS grid reference
- SS 497 863
- Coordinates
- 51.55568, -4.16835
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Oxwich Castle Dovecote is a round structure made of local rubble limestone. Approximately two-thirds of the wall remains, but it is missing its roof, which was likely dome-shaped. The wall thickness is about 0.9 meters. There is a small access doorway located in the southeast corner, featuring a segmental arch and an inside rebate for a lost door. The low height of the arch indicates that the ground level has likely risen over time.
The exterior has small putlog holes at intervals across three levels. The stonework is fair-faced and whitewashed. The dovecote has a base diameter of about 3 meters, tapering to around 2 meters at the point where the dome would have begun. Inside, there are eleven rows of nesting boxes arranged irregularly. The flight holes leading to the exterior are similar in size to the nesting holes and are aligned in the same rows.
Local climate
Oxwich Castle Dovecote sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,500 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% 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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