Dovecote and Outbuildings North West of Trafalgar House is a Grade II listed building in the Darlington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 July 1986. Dovecote. 1 related planning application.

Dovecote and Outbuildings North West of Trafalgar House

WRENN ID
rough-lead-root
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Darlington
Constituency
Darlington MP: Lola McEvoy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 July 1986
Type
Dovecote
Address
Dovecote and Outbuildings North West of Trafalgar House, Heighington Lane, DL5 6PU
OS grid reference
NZ 251 224
Coordinates
54.59671, -1.61181
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The dovecote and outbuildings located north-west of Trafalgar House date from around 1815 and are now used for storage. They are constructed from dressed and rubble sandstone, featuring roofs made of Welsh slate, pantiles, and concrete tiles, along with a brick chimney stack. The dovecote is square in plan and two stories high, with tooled-and-margined quoins. It has a boarded opening on the first floor, a pyramidal Welsh slate roof, and an octagonal wooden glover topped with a lead-covered ogee cap and vane. There is a boarded door on the rear under a wedge lintel. To the right of the dovecote, there is an L-plan range with two loose-boxes, which have boarded doors, breathers, and a low-pitched pantiled roof with coped gables. To the left, a long single-storey detached outbuilding also features tooled-and-margined quoins and has been altered with various openings. Its low-pitched hipped roof is covered with concrete tiles, and it has a rebuilt ridge stack. The side facing Trafalgar House includes a large vehicle opening, a 16-pane horizontal-sliding sash window, and three tall boarded doors. The outbuilding and loose-boxes are included for their group value.

Local climate

Dovecote and Outbuildings North West of Trafalgar House receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 1995
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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