Dovecote at East Orchard is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 22 February 1963. Dovecote.

Dovecote at East Orchard

WRENN ID
burning-chapel-rain
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Constituency
Vale of Glamorgan MP: Kanishka Narayan (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
22 February 1963
Type
Dovecote
Address
Dovecote at East Orchard, Barry, St. Athan
OS grid reference
ST 028 680
Coordinates
51.40342, -3.39801
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Dovecote at East Orchard is a freestanding gabled building, constructed from roughly coursed local lias limestone rubble, featuring dressed quoins and openings. It measures about 4 meters square. On the south side, there is a small doorway with a surround made of large stones and a segmental head. Additionally, there is a doorway in the upper part of the west gable and a window in the lower part of the east gable, which indicate that it may have had a two-floored agricultural use when East Orchard was a farm. The low-pitched gables still show some crow-steps, although the roof is missing. Inside, the walls are lined with nesting boxes.

Local climate

Dovecote at East Orchard sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,160 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 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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