Dovecote About 20 Yards North of Hellens is a Grade II* listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 November 1952. Dovecote.
Dovecote About 20 Yards North of Hellens
- WRENN ID
- hidden-steel-birch
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- North Herefordshire MP: Dr Ellie Chowns (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 November 1952
- Type
- Dovecote
- OS grid reference
- SO 661 332
- Coordinates
- 51.99684, -2.49453
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a dovecote located about 20 yards north of Hellens, with the date "1641/ W / FM" inscribed on the west side. It is constructed of brick with plaster quoins and string courses, topped with a tiled roof and a wooden glover. The dovecote has an octagonal shape and features two almost continuous string courses, along with square and diamond patterns in the brickwork. The south side has a chamfered four-centred doorway, above which is an inserted 18th century or early 19th century segmentally-headed window that interrupts the lower string course. Inside, there are remains of the bottom part of the potence, and about 20 rows of sawn-off tenons suggest that there were projecting nesting ledges instead of hollowed-out nests.
Local climate
Dovecote About 20 Yards North of Hellens receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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