Dovecote 100 Metres North of Old Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 December 1969. Dovecote.
Dovecote 100 Metres North of Old Vicarage
- WRENN ID
- sombre-brick-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 December 1969
- Type
- Dovecote
- OS grid reference
- NU 229 225
- Coordinates
- 55.496, -1.63754
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a dovecote located 100 metres north of the Old Vicarage in Embleton Village, dating from the 18th century. It is constructed of brick in Flemish garden wall bond 1 + 3, resting on stone footings, and features a pantile roof. The dovecote measures 4.6 metres square. On the south side, there is a door positioned left of centre, which is topped by a timber lintel, and above it are four blocked pigeon holes. The eaves are adorned with a stepped cogged cornice, and the roof is pyramidal in shape.
Inside, the upper section contains seven tiers of wall boxes with alighting bands between them, while the lower part has blocked boxes and the shelves have been removed. The floor has largely been taken out. The adjacent pent outbuildings are not considered to be of special interest.
Local climate
Dovecote 100 Metres North of Old Vicarage 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 greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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