Dovecote and Adjacent Outbuilding East of Dean House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 August 1987. Dovecote.
Dovecote and Adjacent Outbuilding East of Dean House Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- bitter-sill-marsh
- 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 and Adjacent Outbuilding East of Dean House Farmhouse, Hedgeley
- OS grid reference
- NU 080 183
- Coordinates
- 55.45866, -1.87437
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building consists of a dovecote and an adjacent outbuilding, dating from the mid-19th century. It is constructed from rubble with tooled-and-margined dressings and has a Welsh slate roof. The dovecote is square and two stories high, while the outbuilding to the west is single-story.
On the north elevation, the dovecote features a boarded door and a round-arched recess below the eaves, which contains two pairs of arched pigeon holes and an alighting shelf in between. It has a pyramidal roof. The outbuilding to the right has a boarded door and two part-slatted windows with slightly projecting sills, and a coped right gable. The returns and rear of the dovecote also have similar pigeon openings, along with a boarded door at the rear.
Inside the dovecote, there are wooden nesting boxes.
Local climate
Dovecote and Adjacent Outbuilding East of Dean House Farmhouse receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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