Dovecote and Attached Mounting Block at Entrance to Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Nottingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1995. Dovecote.
Dovecote and Attached Mounting Block at Entrance to Rectory
- WRENN ID
- frozen-roof-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Nottingham
- Constituency
- Nottingham South MP: Lilian Greenwood (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1995
- Type
- Dovecote
- Address
- Dovecote and Attached Mounting Block at Entrance to Rectory, Church Lane, City of Nottingham
- OS grid reference
- SK 566 377
- Coordinates
- 52.93417, -1.15836
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The dovecote and attached mounting block at the entrance to the Rectory in Wilford were built around 1720 for the Reverend Benjamin Carter, who served as rector from 1694 to 1733 and was the builder of the rectory. The structure was restored in 1980 and is made of red brick, featuring a plain tile and pantile roof with coped gables and brick kneelers. It is a single-storey building with a square plan, and it has a central plank door set in a beaded frame. The flight holes for the doves have likely been blocked during the restoration. To the left of the dovecote is a square brick mounting block, which includes steps and a stone slab on top. The interior features restored gypsum plaster and brick nest boxes, and there is an inscribed plaque attached to the building.
Local climate
Dovecote and Attached Mounting Block at Entrance to Rectory 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 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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