Dovecote is a Grade II listed building in the Wyre local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 April 1998. Dovecote.
Dovecote
- WRENN ID
- fallow-railing-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wyre
- Constituency
- Lancaster and Wyre MP: Cat Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 April 1998
- Type
- Dovecote
- Address
- Dovecote, Great Eccleston
- OS grid reference
- SD 425 400
- Coordinates
- 53.85345, -2.87426
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The dovecote, dating from the late 18th century, features a late 20th-century replacement roof structure. It is constructed of red brick and has a tile rat course at mid-wall level, topped by a Welsh-slated pyramidal roof with a square ogee-roofed cupola. The building has a square plan, with a doorway on the east side and a window above, both featuring shallow segmental brick arches. The entrance includes a studded plank door, which is hung from straps attached to ashlar sandstone blocks set into the doorway jambs. There is a blocked overlight above the door. Surrounding the building at head height is a double course of tiles forming a rat course.
Inside, each wall contains ten rows of nesting boxes, with nine boxes in each row, although some areas have been damaged due to internal alterations. The lower part of the dovecote was later used to stall animals.
Local climate
Dovecote sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,400 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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