Dovecote at Hygga House is a Grade II* listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 1 May 1952. Dovecote.
Dovecote at Hygga House
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-pillar-lark
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Monmouthshire
- Constituency
- Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 1 May 1952
- Type
- Dovecote
- Address
- Dovecote at Hygga House, Trellech, Monmouth, Trellech United
- OS grid reference
- SO 485 036
- Coordinates
- 51.7292, -2.74625
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The dovecote at Hygga House is a Grade II* listed structure built from limewashed stone rubble with sandstone ashlar dressings and topped with a stone slate roof. It has a circular plan and features a doorway with a plain chamfered surround and a 4-centred arch head, made from a single lintel stone, leading to a modern oak plank door. There are two 2-light windows with ovolo mullions, which is quite unusual for a dovecote. The upper wall has continuous bands of nesting boxes arranged in six tiers, complete with stone alighting ledges. The dovecote is topped with a conical roof that has a lantern cap, allowing doves access to the interior.
Inside, the dovecote is limewashed and contains eleven tiers of nesting boxes, which are continuous except where interrupted by the windows and the door. The oak roof was reconstructed in the 1980s.
Local climate
Dovecote at Hygga House receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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