Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Dovecote at Cadoxton Court
Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade I
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 18 September 1962
- Locality
- Cadoxton
- Community
- Barry
- Unitary authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.41156, -3.25565
- Cadw reference
- 13176
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
To S of house.
History
Probably C13, restored. The largest of the remaining medieval dovecots in Glamorgan.
Exterior
Domed circular stone dovecot circa 8m high, internal diameter circa 5m; buttressed walls 1.1m thick, and 4.6m high to springing of corbelled dome roof which has circular opening circa 60cm across. To E, small doorway with pointed head. Interior walls lined with remains of nesting holes circa 15cm square, and 45cm deep. Originally 700 nesting holes, capacity for 1400 pigeons.
Reason for designation
Graded at I as largest and best preserved of the medieval dovecots in Glamorgan.
Group value with Cadoxton Court.
Nearby in the register
- Cadoxton CourtDomesticunder 1 mi
- Cross in Churchyard at Church of St CadocReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Church of St CadocReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- The Old SchoolhouseEducationunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.