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 (i) and 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
21243
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/01/1999
Date of Amendment
29/01/1999
Name of Property
Dovecote at Home Farm
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Bridgend
Community
Merthyr Mawr
Town
Locality
Merthyr Mawr
Easting
288462
Northing
177625
Street Side
Location
Home Farm is approximately 200m NE of the parish church. The dovecote stands to the S of the farm yard in a former orchard.
Description
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Period
History
Home Farm was built in the early C19 by Sir John Nicholl, who purchased the Merthyr Mawr Estate in 1804. The dovecote was built on the site of a former orchard in the latter half of the C19.
Exterior
Two storeys and square in plan, of coursed, dressed limestone and pyramidal slate roof (a former cupola is now missing). The N side facing the farm yard is open-fronted to the lower storey with 2 wide doorways under stone segmental heads (with added brick jambs and steel lintel to doorway on R). Above is a central doorway with flat stone arch. The E and W walls have, set back slightly from the angles, raked stone buttresses (the E wall also partly fallen down). In the S wall are 2 doorways similar to N side but infilled with rubble stone, and a stub wall between them which formerly projected to the S. Above is a central oculus.
Interior
The lower storey was originally 2 units but only stub walls of a former partition survive. The walls are plastered in the lower storey, and in the loft up to the level of the brick nesting boxes. The roof has machine-sawn, pegged trusses, partly fire damaged.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with Home Farm and its listed farm buildings, and for group value with other listed items on the Merthyr Mawr Estate.
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