Dovecote to East of Heckley Fence Farmhouse with Attached Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 August 1987. Dovecote.
Dovecote to East of Heckley Fence Farmhouse with Attached Wall
- WRENN ID
- calm-courtyard-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 August 1987
- Type
- Dovecote
- OS grid reference
- NU 187 172
- Coordinates
- 55.44883, -1.70549
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The dovecote located to the east of Heckley Fence Farmhouse, along with its attached wall, dates from the late 18th century. The dovecote is constructed of rubble with tooled quoins and dressings, topped by a Welsh slate roof. The wall is made of squared stone with some brick courses, resting on a rubble base. The dovecote is square in shape and is connected by the wall to the farmhouse on the west.
On the north elevation, the dovecote features a band at mid-height, which is interrupted by a boarded loft door set in a pointed arch. There is a similar lower door with a slatted tympanum. Above the doors, there is a blind quatrefoil. The dovecote is capped with a pyramidal roof. The returns display similar blind quatrefoils above the band, while the rear elevation has an open quatrefoil and a tall flat-coped wall on the left.
The farmhouse and outbuilding located at the rear of the wall have been altered and are not considered to be of special interest.
Local climate
Dovecote to East of Heckley Fence Farmhouse with Attached Wall receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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