Implement Shed and Stable Range with Dovecote Immediately South East of Church Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Melton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 August 1979. Shed, stable, dovecote.
Implement Shed and Stable Range with Dovecote Immediately South East of Church Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- first-parapet-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Melton
- Constituency
- Melton and Syston MP: Edward Argar (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1979
- Type
- Shed, stable, dovecote
- Address
- Implement Shed and Stable Range with Dovecote Immediately South East of Church Farmhouse, Church Lane, Ab Kettleby
- OS grid reference
- SK 712 231
- Coordinates
- 52.80143, -0.94482
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building is an implement shed and stable range with a dovecote, located immediately southeast of Church Farmhouse. It dates from the 18th to 19th century and is constructed from coursed squared ironstone and brick, featuring pantile and slate roofs. The structure has eight bays and is a single-storey range with a pantile roof. To the left of the center is a four-bay former cart-shed, supported by polygonal brick piers, although some openings have been blocked. The stables are located to the right of the center. At the far right is a taller rectangular dovecote topped with a pyramidal slate roof, which has three tall narrow ventilation slits at the upper level, each with tile heads.
Local climate
Implement Shed and Stable Range with Dovecote Immediately South East of Church Farmhouse 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 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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