Dovecote at Cricket Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Barnsley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 January 1986. A C18 Dovecote.
Dovecote at Cricket Farm
- WRENN ID
- ghost-crypt-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Barnsley
- Constituency
- Barnsley North MP: Dan Jarvis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1986
- Type
- Dovecote
- Address
- Dovecote at Cricket Farm, Cross Street
- OS grid reference
- SE 362 077
- Coordinates
- 53.56521, -1.45454
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The dovecote at Cricket Farm is a structure from the mid to late 18th century, built from squared, coursed rubble with a stone slate roof. It stands three storeys high and has one bay. The entrance is located on the left and features a deep, shaped lintel. On the first floor, there is a two-light window, while the second floor has a larger single-light window. The gable ends have copings on cut kneelers. Adjacent to the dovecote is a lower, two-storey building that has been altered; it includes an entrance with a deep lintel, a rebuilt gable wall, and a Welsh slate roof.
Inside the dovecote, the walls are lined with brick and it retains nesting holes in the brickwork as well as in the underdrawn ceiling, which also has wooden perches. The lower building features two open trusses with extended tie-beams.
Local climate
Dovecote at Cricket Farm receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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