Dovecote Range Attached to SE of Cowhouse at Skirpenbeck is a Grade II listed building in the East Riding of Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1988. Dovecote.
Dovecote Range Attached to SE of Cowhouse at Skirpenbeck
- WRENN ID
- young-lime-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Bridlington and The Wolds MP: Charlie Dewhirst (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 March 1988
- Type
- Dovecote
- OS grid reference
- SE 746 569
- Coordinates
- 54.00301, -0.86273
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The dovecote range attached to the southeast of the cowhouse at Skirpenbeck House dates from around 1800. It is constructed of red brick in a partly Flemish bond with a pantiled roof. The building is two stories high with a one-bay center that is set forward of the one-story, one-bay side wings. An outshot at the rear-left connects to the cowhouse.
The center features a rebated, basket-arched cart entrance, which currently lacks doors, and is set beneath a square opening that has a store ledge and a flat arch above it. There is a store ledge and pigeon holes located beneath the eaves on the right side. The right wing has an old boarded door beneath a flat arch, while the left wing is blind but includes basket-arched openings for the shelter shed on its left side. The eaves are detailed, leading to hipped roofs, and the central apex is truncated, likely indicating the former location of a lantern.
Inside, access to the dovecote is provided by a ladder within the right wing. The interior features a line-ash floor, remnants of clay-tile nesting boxes, and pattern-book king post trusses.
Local climate
Dovecote Range Attached to SE of Cowhouse at Skirpenbeck receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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