Dovecote About 30 Yards South of Poston Court Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1984. Dovecote.
Dovecote About 30 Yards South of Poston Court Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- floating-footing-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- Hereford and South Herefordshire MP: Jesse Norman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 November 1984
- Type
- Dovecote
- OS grid reference
- SO 352 372
- Coordinates
- 52.02958, -2.94573
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This dovecote, located about 30 yards south of Poston Court Farmhouse, dates from the mid-19th century and has been altered. It is constructed of red brick and features a slate roof. The building is octagonal in shape, with recessed segmental headed panels between pilasters at the corners of each side. It has a dentilled eaves cornice and a central lantern. Garage doors face Poston Court Farmhouse. The interior is reported to still have nesting boxes and may have once served as a cock pit.
Local climate
Dovecote About 30 Yards South of Poston Court Farmhouse receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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