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

Dovecote

WRENN ID
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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
Post box
Address
Dovecote, Llantwit Major, Cowbridge / Y Bont-Faen
OS grid reference
SS 965 686
Coordinates
51.40698, -3.48873
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

This is a 17th-century dovecote, featuring a cylindrical structure made of roughly coursed limestone and topped with a corbelled domical roof. Some courses, particularly one located about 300mm above the door arch, are more carefully squared than the others. The walls are approximately 1 meter thick and include a narrow segmentally arched doorway, which appears to have been rebuilt. Inside, there are tiers of square niches or nesting holes for the birds.

Local climate

Dovecote sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% 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 88% 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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