Dovecote Approximately 50 Metres North East of Manor Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Rushcliffe local planning authority area, England. Dovecote.
Dovecote Approximately 50 Metres North East of Manor Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- idle-storey-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rushcliffe
- Constituency
- Rushcliffe MP: James Naish (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Dovecote
- OS grid reference
- SK 701 332
- Coordinates
- 52.89175, -0.95899
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a dovecote located approximately 50 metres north-east of Manor Farmhouse in Colston Bassett, likely built in the early 18th century. It is constructed of red brick and features a plain-tiled roof, with a square plan. The north-east side has an enlarged doorway, and the steeply pitched roof is topped with tall brick copings and brick kneelers.
Inside, there are nesting boxes on three sides created from a five-course sequence of brickwork, which includes a string course, two courses forming the nest holes, a plain course, and a saw-tooth course. One side of the brickwork is damaged. The original oak roof system has undergone significant repairs using sawn softwood. There are low cartsheds on two sides, but they are not of special interest.
Local climate
Dovecote Approximately 50 Metres North East of Manor Farmhouse 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 84% 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 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% 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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