Dovecote at Home Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Bridgend local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 January 1999. Dovecote.
Dovecote at Home Farm
- WRENN ID
- peeling-thatch-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bridgend
- Constituency
- Bridgend MP: Chris Elmore (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1999
- Type
- Dovecote
- Address
- Dovecote at Home Farm, Merthyr Mawr
- OS grid reference
- SS 884 776
- Coordinates
- 51.48654, -3.60782
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Dovecote at Home Farm is a two-storey structure with a square plan, built of coursed, dressed limestone and topped with a pyramidal slate roof, although a former cupola is now missing. The north side, which faces the farmyard, features an open front on the lower storey with two wide doorways that have stone segmental heads. The right doorway has added brick jambs and a steel lintel. Above these doorways, there is a central doorway with a flat stone arch. The east and west walls are supported by raked stone buttresses that are set back slightly from the corners, with the east wall partially collapsed. The south wall contains two doorways similar to those on the north side, but these have been infilled with rubble stone, and there is a stub wall between them that once extended to the south. Above this, there is a central oculus.
Originally, the lower storey consisted of two units, but only the stub walls of a former partition remain. The walls are plastered in the lower storey, while in the loft, the plaster extends up to the level of the brick nesting boxes. The roof features machine-sawn, pegged trusses, which have suffered some fire damage.
Local climate
Dovecote at Home Farm sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% 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 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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