Dovecote 50 Metres North West of Plessey North Moor Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 July 1987. Dovecote.
Dovecote 50 Metres North West of Plessey North Moor Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- buried-railing-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Cramlington and Killingworth MP: Emma Foody (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 July 1987
- Type
- Dovecote
- OS grid reference
- NZ 238 769
- Coordinates
- 55.08622, -1.62734
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The dovecote located 50 metres north-west of Plessey North Moor Farmhouse dates from the early to mid-19th century. It is constructed of snecked stone with tooled-and-margined quoins and dressings, topped with a Welsh slate roof. The building has a square plan and stands two storeys high. On the east side, there is a boarded door with a 6-pane casement window above it, while the north side features an external stone stair leading to another boarded door. All openings are framed with chamfered alternating-block surrounds, and the structure is capped with a pyramidal roof.
Local climate
Dovecote 50 Metres North West of Plessey North Moor Farmhouse receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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