Dovecote and Pigsties Approximately 50 Yards North of Cheeseburn Grange is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1986. Dovecote, pigsties.
Dovecote and Pigsties Approximately 50 Yards North of Cheeseburn Grange
- WRENN ID
- blind-jade-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1986
- Type
- Dovecote, pigsties
- OS grid reference
- NZ 093 712
- Coordinates
- 55.03606, -1.85457
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building consists of a dovecote and pigsties, located approximately 50 yards north of Cheeseburn Grange. It dates from the mid-18th century and is constructed of random rubble with ashlar dressings, topped with a Lakeland slate roof.
The central section of the structure is two storeys high, with single-storey sections on either side. The ground floor features a central passageway, with low doorways leading to the pigsties on either side. Above the central doorway, there are three pigeon holes, and the stone ledge for the pigeons serves as a hood over the door below. To the left, there are small fixed windows, while to the right, there is a small 12-pane Yorkshire sash window.
The flanking sections each have multiple low doors, with three on the left and two on the right. The roofs of the sections are hipped.
Local climate
Dovecote and Pigsties Approximately 50 Yards North of Cheeseburn Grange receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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