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Latitude: 51.8183 / 51°49'5"N
Longitude: -3.9758 / 3°58'33"W
OS Eastings: 263907
OS Northings: 215140
OS Grid: SN639151
Mapcode National: GBR DX.WLGK
Mapcode Global: VH4JB.1KHG
Plus Code: 9C3RR29F+8M
Entry Name: Glynhir Dovecote
Listing Date: 26 November 1951
Last Amended: 27 August 1999
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 10904
Building Class: Domestic
ID on this website: 300010904
Location: At the entrance to Glynhir mansion and farmyard.
County: Carmarthenshire
Town: Ammanford
Community: Llandybie (Llandybïe)
Community: Llandybie
Locality: Glynhir
Traditional County: Carmarthenshire
Tagged with: Dovecote
Probably late C18, put up as one of the improvements following the acquisition of Glynhir by Peter DuBuisson in 1770. Until recently the dovecote was surmounted by an octagonal pyramid roof with a wooden cupola, and retained the complete potence.
According to a strong local tradition [Lewis], the first news of the victory at Waterloo came to Britain by pigeons returning to this dovecote; Caroline DuBuisson is said to have raced to London and to her connections, the Rothschild family, with the news, to take maximum commercial advantage of this early information.
Octagonal stone dovecote, about 6m in height, and now lacking its original roof and cupola. The stonework consists of very thin sandstone slabs, including the cambered arch over the entrance doorway. The eight corners are not differentiated from the rest of the masonry. Small string course near the head of the wall. The walls are about 0.7m in thickness, including the depth of the nesting boxes.
The interior has 20 rows of eight nesting boxes in each of the eight sides apart from the entrance side, making a total of about 750 boxes. There are small landing shelves beneath each row. The base for the central revolving potence remains.
A fine C18 dovecote notwithstanding the loss of its original domed roof and cupola, also listed for group value with Glynhir mansion.
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