Dovecote Attached to No. 32 is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. Dovecote.
Dovecote Attached to No. 32
- WRENN ID
- peeling-string-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Dovecote
- OS grid reference
- NZ 126 205
- Coordinates
- 54.57977, -1.80657
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The dovecote attached to No. 32 is an early 18th-century structure. It is built of thinly-rendered rubble with ashlar dressings and features a stone-flagged roof with stone ridges. The dovecote is two storeys high and has a square plan with one bay. The east elevation facing the drive includes a wide passageway entrance on the ground floor, which has an inserted lintel and a small blocked light above it. A string course below the eaves creates the appearance of an entablature. The pyramidal roof is accented by prominent diagonal kneelers, although the ball finials that once adorned these and the square coping at the peak have been removed. On the rear elevation facing the garden, there is a blocked elliptical window on the first floor, which features a moulded stone surround.
Local climate
Dovecote Attached to No. 32 receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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