Dovecote at the Duckett is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1985. Dovecote. 1 related planning application.
Dovecote at the Duckett
- WRENN ID
- blind-sill-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 December 1985
- Type
- Dovecote
- Address
- Dovecote at the Duckett, Ellington and Linton, NE61 5JG
- OS grid reference
- NZ 275 919
- Coordinates
- 55.22067, -1.56821
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A dovecote, likely dating from the mid-18th century, and altered around 1830. It is now used as an outhouse. The building is constructed of roughly-squared stone with cut quoins and dressings, topped with a tooled and margined parapet. A flat, 20th-century roof replaced the original pyramidal roof, which was removed before 1930. The dovecote is a squat, tower-like structure approximately 5.2 metres square externally. The parapet is corbelled out and raised at each corner to resemble a castellated appearance. The west elevation features a lunette above a blocked window recess and a central section of parapet with pigeon holes and an alighting band beneath. The east elevation has a similar window above recently inserted double doors. Inside, there are nesting boxes. The buildings to the north and south are not of architectural significance.
Local climate
Dovecote at the Duckett receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- 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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