Dovecote Approximately 40 Yards North of Stable Block is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. Dovecote.
Dovecote Approximately 40 Yards North of Stable Block
- WRENN ID
- silver-gutter-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Tatton MP: Esther McVey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Dovecote
- OS grid reference
- SJ 725 778
- Coordinates
- 53.29733, -2.41398
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a dovecote built around 1760, located approximately 40 yards north of the stable block at Tabley Inferior. It is constructed of red English garden wall bond brick and features a slate roof with lead flashings and a wooden lantern. The dovecote is octagonal and has two storeys. There is a doorway on the south front, which includes a six-pane door and a fanlight above it. The ground floor has rectangular windows, while the first floor has circular windows on all other sides, although these have been bricked up and rendered.
Local climate
Dovecote Approximately 40 Yards North of Stable Block sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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