Walled Garden and Dovecote Circa 30 Yards South West of Middle Ord is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1969. Garden, dovecote.
Walled Garden and Dovecote Circa 30 Yards South West of Middle Ord
- WRENN ID
- south-pediment-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1969
- Type
- Garden, dovecote
- OS grid reference
- NT 969 505
- Coordinates
- 55.74847, -2.04954
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The walled garden and dovecote, located approximately 30 yards south-west of Middle Ord, were built in 1788 for J. Grey. The garden features squared stone walls, with the garden wall raised in brick. The dovecote, which also serves as a summer house, has a felted roof.
The high wall surrounds three sides of the large square garden, with the side walls sloping down towards the southern end. The flat coping adds to the structure's design. There is a doorway into the garden near the north-east corner, which has a lintel inscribed with "JG 1788."
The dovecote/summer house is two storeys tall, consisting of one bay and a square shape. It has a boarded door and two fixed 16-pane windows on the ground floor, along with a boarded door above. The steep pyramidal roof features a small square entry for wood pigeons, also topped with a pyramidal roof.
Inside, the dovecote includes a small corner fireplace and a finely-moulded cornice. The first floor contains brick nesting boxes.
Local climate
Walled Garden and Dovecote Circa 30 Yards South West of Middle Ord receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% 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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