Dovecote 20 Metres South-East of Linden House, and Attached Garden Walls is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 May 1988. Dovecote.
Dovecote 20 Metres South-East of Linden House, and Attached Garden Walls
- WRENN ID
- solitary-bonework-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 May 1988
- Type
- Dovecote
- OS grid reference
- NY 918 714
- Coordinates
- 55.03713, -2.12931
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The dovecote, located 20 metres south-east of Linden House, dates from the mid-18th century and is accompanied by attached garden walls. The external elevations are constructed of rubble with roughly-shaped quoins, while the internal elevations are made of brick in irregular stretcher bond, featuring cut dressings. The roof of the dovecote is covered with Welsh slate and topped with a wooden turret.
On the south elevation, there is an altered flush-panelled door set in a chamfered stone surround. The gables are coped, and a square turret sits on the ridge, which includes three round-headed pigeon holes, a pyramidal cap, and a weathervane. The left side shows a blocked window with a stone lintel, while the right side features boarded doors at two levels, with the upper door pierced by pigeon holes.
The garden wall connects the north-west corner of the dovecote to the south-east corner of Linden House, featuring flat coping and a boarded door in a chamfered surround. Another section of the garden wall runs from the south-east corner of the dovecote to the ha-ha wall, containing a boarded door with a tooled-and-margined lintel and is patched and heightened in stone. The attached farm buildings at the rear are not of interest.
Local climate
Dovecote 20 Metres South-East of Linden House, and Attached Garden Walls receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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