Dovecote at Pencoed Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Newport local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 18 December 1991. Dovecote.
Dovecote at Pencoed Castle
- WRENN ID
- last-string-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newport
- Constituency
- Newport East MP: Jessica Morden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 18 December 1991
- Type
- Dovecote
- Address
- Dovecote at Pencoed Castle, Llanmartin, Langstone
- OS grid reference
- ST 407 894
- Coordinates
- 51.60109, -2.85742
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The dovecote at Pencoed Castle is a square plan structure made of rubble, currently roofless and featuring crumbling gables. On the west side, there is a dressed stone gable window and a doorway, both of which have relieving arches. Inside, there is a ledge at the eaves level and broadly spaced nesting boxes.
Local climate
Dovecote at Pencoed Castle receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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