Dovecote at Dovecote House is a Grade II listed building in the North Kesteven local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1972. Dovecote.
Dovecote at Dovecote House
- WRENN ID
- pitched-string-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Kesteven
- Constituency
- Sleaford and North Hykeham MP: Dr Caroline Johnson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1972
- Type
- Dovecote
- Address
- Dovecote at Dovecote House, Guild Ford Lane, Brant Broughton and Stragglethorpe
- OS grid reference
- SK 915 543
- Coordinates
- 53.07814, -0.63471
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The dovecote at Dovecote House, formerly known as the dovecote at the Gables, is a 17th-century structure used for housing pigeons. It is built from coursed rubble and brick, topped with a pantile roof. The walls are made of coursed rubble with dressed stone grains, and the gables are brick. There is a single low doorway on the east side, featuring a chamfered four-centred arch. The south gable includes pigeonholes, while the north gable has a fixed light.
Local climate
Dovecote at Dovecote House 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 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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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