Dovecote at Number 5 (Knob Hall) is a Grade II listed building in the Rutland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1984. Dovecote.
Dovecote at Number 5 (Knob Hall)
- WRENN ID
- tilted-ledge-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rutland
- Constituency
- Rutland and Stamford MP: Alicia Kearns (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 June 1984
- Type
- Dovecote
- Address
- Dovecote at Number 5 (Knob Hall), Main Street, Barrowden
- OS grid reference
- SK 950 000
- Coordinates
- 52.59008, -0.59878
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The dovecote at Number 5, known as Knob Hall, is an 18th-century structure located on the south side of Main Street in Barrowden. It is built of coursed rubble stone with quoins and features a Collyweston slate roof, which has two square wooden louvres. The dovecote is two stories high and divided into two square sections. The interior walls are lined with numerous tiers of holes and perches designed for doves. It has a six-bay tie beam roof, with a square opening in each gable and two doorways at the rear. This building is considered rare and unusual.
Local climate
Dovecote at Number 5 (Knob Hall) 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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