Dovecote, 150 Metres South-West of Biddick Hall is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 February 1987. A Modern Dovecote.

Dovecote, 150 Metres South-West of Biddick Hall

WRENN ID
still-step-lake
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
North Durham MP: Luke Akehurst (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 February 1987
Type
Dovecote
Period
Modern
OS grid reference
NZ 313 527
Coordinates
54.86838, -1.51366
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The dovecote, located 150 metres south-west of Biddick Hall, is a small circular garden temple built around 1910. It features a stone stylobate and pedestals, with a painted wood structure topped by a copper-sheathed roof. The base has an octagonal plan and is supported by eight Roman Ionic columns on corniced pedestals with cyma-moulded plinths. The octagonal entablature includes a frieze with small round-arched entrance holes leading to the loft beneath the dome. The structure is topped with an ogee dome that has an iron vane, making it an unusual example of a dovecote.

Local climate

Dovecote, 150 Metres South-West of Biddick Hall receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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