Old Dovecote is a Grade II listed building in the Rutland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1984. House, dovehouse, stables.
Old Dovecote
- WRENN ID
- guardian-truss-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rutland
- Constituency
- Rutland and Stamford MP: Alicia Kearns (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 June 1984
- Type
- House, dovehouse, stables
- Address
- Old Dovecote, Church Street, North Luffenham
- OS grid reference
- SK 934 034
- Coordinates
- 52.62039, -0.62102
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Dovecote is a house that was originally built as stables and a dovehouse in the 18th century and converted in the 20th century. It is constructed from coursed rubble stone with quoins and stone dressings, topped with a Collyweston slate roof featuring a stone side stack. The main facade faces the school at the rear and is designed with one and a half storeys.
The building has a symmetrical layout, featuring a small central pyramid roof block flanked by two small side wings. Each wing is adorned with a round-arched window, while the central block showcases a Venetian window. Above this window, there are two 2-light casements and a blank central window frame. The roof is topped with a lead and wooden square louvre. The entrance is accessed through a door set within a 20th-century columned porch, and the building also includes two-light casements and two 2-light dormers.
Local climate
Old 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 55% 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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