Dovecote Belonging to the Castle Donington Tennis Club is a Grade II listed building in the North West Leicestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 December 1962. Dovecote.
Dovecote Belonging to the Castle Donington Tennis Club
- WRENN ID
- stark-kitchen-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North West Leicestershire
- Constituency
- North West Leicestershire MP: Amanda Hack (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 December 1962
- Type
- Dovecote
- Address
- Dovecote Belonging to the Castle Donington Tennis Club, Delven Lane
- OS grid reference
- SK 445 271
- Coordinates
- 52.83963, -1.3399
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a dovecote belonging to the Castle Donington Tennis Club, dating from the early to mid-18th century with slight alterations. It is constructed of red brick featuring a diaper pattern made with blue headers. The roof is pyramid-shaped and covered with tiles, topped by a square wooden entry turret that has 20th-century glazing and a 20th-century cast iron weathervane. The dovecote has two storeys and displays bands of offset brickwork with dentils at the first-floor level and just below the eaves; the lower band includes narrow dentils and a plaster frieze beneath. On the south side, there are 20th-century doors on both floors. Inside, the dovecote contains brick resting boxes, cogged ledges, and a 20th-century floor.
Local climate
Dovecote Belonging to the Castle Donington Tennis Club 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 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% 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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