Priory Dovecote, to West of St Mary's Priory Ruins is a Grade I listed building in the Redcar and Cleveland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1952. A C14 Dovecote.

Priory Dovecote, to West of St Mary's Priory Ruins

WRENN ID
steep-wicket-meadow
Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
Redcar and Cleveland
Constituency
Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland MP: Luke Myer (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 June 1952
Type
Dovecote
Address
Priory Dovecote, to West of St Mary's Priory Ruins, Church Street, Guisborough
OS grid reference
NZ 616 160
Coordinates
54.53583, -1.04947
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Priory Dovecote, located to the west of the ruins of St. Mary's Priory, is a 14th-century structure that now serves as a garden store. It is built from dressed sandstone and features a mid-18th century pyramidal roof made of Welsh slate, complete with lead-roll ridges and a leaded, ogee-roofed open-sided timber cupola topped with a weather vane finial. The dovecote is octagonal in shape and has two storeys, with a drip mould running between the floors. The south elevation includes an equilateral headed doorway with a vertically boarded door. There are lancet windows on the first floor, and the east and west elevations have blocked segmental-headed openings, while the north elevation features a lancet opening. The timber nesting boxes that were once inside have been removed.

Local climate

Priory Dovecote, to West of St Mary's Priory Ruins receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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