Dovecote Henhouse and Attached Shelter Shed on South Side of Road is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 August 1987. Dovecote.
Dovecote Henhouse and Attached Shelter Shed on South Side of Road
- WRENN ID
- vast-clay-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 August 1987
- Type
- Dovecote
- Address
- Dovecote Henhouse and Attached Shelter Shed on South Side of Road, Hedgeley
- OS grid reference
- NU 130 162
- Coordinates
- 55.43991, -1.79603
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The dovecote-henhouse and attached shelter shed, built around 1830-1840, is located on the south side of the road in Hedgeley, East Bolton. It is constructed from squared stone with tooled-and-margined quoins and dressings, topped with a Welsh slate roof. The square dovecote is accompanied by a contemporary shelter shed to the west.
On the south elevation, the dovecote features a henhole approximately 2 meters above the ground, with a recess above that contains five pigeon entrances and an alighting shelf. The shelter shed to the left has a pair of square-headed openings, and both structures have hip-ended roofs. The right side of the dovecote displays a doorway with a timber lintel and a small window.
Inside, the lower part of the dovecote contains stone wall boxes for hens, while the upper part has smaller boxes for pigeons. There is a ruinous pent privy at the rear of the dovecote, but it is not considered of special interest.
Local climate
Dovecote Henhouse and Attached Shelter Shed on South Side of Road receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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