Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building and (i) any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
13176
Building Number
Grade
I
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
18/09/1962
Date of Amendment
Name of Property
Dovecote at Cadoxton Court
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Community
Barry
Town
Locality
Cadoxton
Easting
312769
Northing
168808
Street Side
Location
To S of house.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
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.
Interior
Reason for designation
Graded at I as largest and best preserved of the medieval dovecots in Glamorgan.
Group value with Cadoxton Court.
Sources
- D Moore (Ed), Barry, The Centenary Book, Barry, 1984, p 100.,
- Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales,,
- An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Glamorgan, Volume IV: Medieval Secular Monuments, Part II Non Defensive London, 1982, p 378.,
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