Dovecote Circa 20 Yards Nort West of Humbleton Buildings Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1986. Dovecote.
Dovecote Circa 20 Yards Nort West of Humbleton Buildings Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- vast-slate-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1986
- Type
- Dovecote
- OS grid reference
- NT 972 291
- Coordinates
- 55.55573, -2.04456
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This dovecote, located approximately 20 yards north-west of Humbleton Buildings Farmhouse, likely dates from the 18th century. It is rendered and features a Welsh slate roof with a wooden entry for the dovecote. The structure is two storeys tall and measures about 12 feet square. On the ground floor, there are two boarded doors: one leads to a garden store on the left, and the other to a privy on the right. Above, there is another boarded door that provides access to the dovecote.
The roof is pyramidal and topped with a square dovecote entry that has four holes on each side, also featuring a pyramidal roof. Inside, the dovecote contains nesting boxes as well as the privy.
Local climate
Dovecote Circa 20 Yards Nort West of Humbleton Buildings Farmhouse receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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