Hayloft and Dovecote Approximately 40 Metres East of Spring Lodge with Sheds, Kennels and Wall is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 November 1994. Hayloft, dovecote. 1 related planning application.
Hayloft and Dovecote Approximately 40 Metres East of Spring Lodge with Sheds, Kennels and Wall
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-stone-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1994
- Type
- Hayloft, dovecote
- OS grid reference
- NZ 054 161
- Coordinates
- 54.54069, -1.91665
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The hayloft and dovecote, located approximately 40 meters east of Spring Lodge, date from around 1827 and were built for William Watson. This structure features coursed squared stone or snecked stone with ashlar quoins and dressings. The roofs are made of graduated stone slates, complete with stone gable coping and a timber dovecote lantern. The hayloft and dovecote consist of one high storey and three bays. The east elevation includes alternate block jambs leading to a full-height door for hay waggons, along with vent slits in the blank wall. The roof has gable copings and a square ridge timber lantern that is pierced with triangular pigeon holes and topped with a pyramidal roof and high weather vane finial.
Inside, there are queen post roof trusses. To the west, there are pent sheds and outhouses with boarded doors and one fixed light featuring glazing bars, which flank a walled enclosure that backs against a high rubble wall with flat stone coping. This wall curves around the north side of the house and connects to the yard wall. To the south of the hayloft, a high garden wall with flat stone coping extends approximately 25 meters south along the garden. East of the hayloft, the kennels have ramped walls and iron railings against a high garden wall that continues east to the entrance of the rear drive. This building is a well-preserved example of the auxiliary structures associated with a small country house.
Local climate
Hayloft and Dovecote Approximately 40 Metres East of Spring Lodge with Sheds, Kennels and Wall receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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