Dovecote is a Grade II listed building in the Rutland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1954. A C18 Dovecote.
Dovecote
- WRENN ID
- plain-barrel-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rutland
- Constituency
- Rutland and Stamford MP: Alicia Kearns (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1954
- Type
- Dovecote
- Address
- Dovecote, Exton Road, Empingham
- OS grid reference
- SK 949 088
- Coordinates
- 52.66875, -0.59739
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a dovecote dating from the 18th century. It is constructed from coursed rubble stone and features a conical roof made of 20th-century tiles, topped with a ball and weathervane. The dovecote has a circular plan and stands three storeys tall. On the ground floor, there is a door and a small opening. The first floor has two round-arched boarded openings facing east and west, while the second floor has two similar openings facing north and south. This structure is also a scheduled ancient monument.
Local climate
Dovecote sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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