Dovecote and Adjacent Pigsty, 10 Metres West of Number 4 (The Old House) is a Grade II listed building in the Darlington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1988. Dovecote, pigsty.
Dovecote and Adjacent Pigsty, 10 Metres West of Number 4 (The Old House)
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-mantel-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Darlington
- Constituency
- Stockton West MP: Matt Vickers (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1988
- Type
- Dovecote, pigsty
- OS grid reference
- NZ 302 101
- Coordinates
- 54.48582, -1.53418
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The dovecote and adjacent pigsty, located 10 metres west of Number 4 (The Old House), date from the early to mid-18th century. The dovecote is constructed of narrow brick in English garden wall bond and features a pantiled roof with a wooden glover. It has a square plan with a squat lower storey, which is defined by a band and includes an original boarded doorway set in a rebated, segmental-arched opening on the right side. The upper storey has a boarded doorway under a segmental head, with a fixed 6-pane light above it and an eaves band. The roof is pyramidal and topped with stone ridge tiles. The glover, also square in plan, has arched openings and 3-pane lights, and is capped with a pyramidal top that has a cast-iron wind vane. Inside, the lower storey features two parallel tunnel vaults, while the upper storey is lined with nesting boxes.
The pigsty, which includes a hen-house above, dates from the late 18th century and is also made of narrow brick in English garden wall bond with a pantiled roof. It has a boarded door to the hen-house on the gabled front and a two-bay right return with two small elliptical-arched openings with rounded jambs. The walls of the pig yard have been demolished, and there is an eaves band along the roof, which is steeply pitched with raised verges and corbelled-out kneelers. The pigsty is situated about 5 metres southwest of the dovecote and is included for its group value. The rebuilt wall linking the pigsty to the dovecote is not of special interest.
Local climate
Dovecote and Adjacent Pigsty, 10 Metres West of Number 4 (The Old House) receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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