Dovecote is a Grade II listed building in the East Riding of Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1986. Dovecote.
Dovecote
- WRENN ID
- spare-wall-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Goole and Pocklington MP: David Davis (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 March 1986
- Type
- Dovecote
- Address
- Dovecote, Sancton
- OS grid reference
- SE 886 391
- Coordinates
- 53.84138, -0.65421
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Dovecote, dating from the late 18th century, is constructed of red brick in English garden wall bond and features a stone slate roof with a lead roof on the lantern. It has an octagonal plan and includes doors with segmental heads on sides one and three. The structure is topped with an octagonal pyramidal roof that is crowned by a lantern containing pigeon-holes, a modillioned cornice, a Baroque dome, and a fox weathervane. Houghton Hall, where the dovecote is located, is listed in the HBMC County Register of Gardens at Grade II.
Local climate
Dovecote sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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