Dovecote at Reedsford Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1986. Dovecote, henhouse. 1 related planning application.
Dovecote at Reedsford Farm
- WRENN ID
- tangled-loggia-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1986
- Type
- Dovecote, henhouse
- Address
- Dovecote at Reedsford Farm, Kilham, TD12 4QQ
- OS grid reference
- NT 893 324
- Coordinates
- 55.58555, -2.17082
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The dovecote at Reedsford Farm is a henhouse and dovecote, probably dating from the 17th century. It is constructed of random rubble and features a Welsh slate roof along with a pantiled roof. The building is two storeys high and approximately 12 feet square, with single-storey lean-to sheds on either side.
Access is provided by three steps leading up to a boarded door, with similar doors located on the first floor and at the sheds. The structure has a steeply-pitched pyramidal roof topped with a square wooden cap, which also has a pyramidal roof and contains pigeon holes.
Inside, the ground floor features large brick triangular-headed nesting holes for hens, while the upper level has similar but smaller nesting holes for pigeons.
Local climate
Dovecote at Reedsford Farm receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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