Dovecote is a Grade II listed building in the Bolton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 November 2005. Dovecote. 2 related planning applications.
Dovecote
- WRENN ID
- first-window-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bolton
- Constituency
- Bolton West MP: Phil Brickell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 November 2005
- Type
- Dovecote
- Address
- Dovecote, Hulton Park Home Farm, BL5 1BH
- OS grid reference
- SD 679 053
- Coordinates
- 53.54339, -2.4856
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Dovecote is an early 19th-century structure located at Hulton Park Home Farm. It is made of red brick and features a grey slate roof. The dovecote is small and octagonal in shape, topped with a hipped roof that has iron covers at the hips. A central raised lantern, framed in wood and capped with a conical slate roof, is supported by a wooden post. Some slates are missing from the roof. The building has a plain entrance doorway and two circular openings framed in brick, spaced around its sides. Internal nesting boxes are reported to be intact. This dovecote is one of the few remaining structures associated with Hulton Hall, which was demolished in 1957, and it was likely built around the same time as the hall and the surviving stables in the early years of the 19th century.
Local climate
Dovecote sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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- 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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