Latitude: 51.4865 / 51°29'11"N
Longitude: -3.6078 / 3°36'28"W
OS Eastings: 288462
OS Northings: 177625
OS Grid: SS884776
Mapcode National: GBR HC.KF7N
Mapcode Global: VH5HJ.FW2S
Plus Code: 9C3RF9PR+JV
Entry Name: Dovecote at Home Farm
Listing Date: 29 January 1999
Last Amended: 29 January 1999
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 21243
Building Class: Agriculture and Subsistence
ID on this website: 300021243
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.
County: Bridgend
Community: Merthyr Mawr
Community: Merthyr Mawr
Traditional County: Glamorgan
Tagged with: Dovecote
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.
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.
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.
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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