Dovecote 10 Metres North of the Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 February 2000. Dovecote.
Dovecote 10 Metres North of the Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- steep-clay-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 February 2000
- Type
- Dovecote
- OS grid reference
- SO 500 900
- Coordinates
- 52.50604, -2.73761
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The dovecote located 10 metres north of the Old Rectory in Eaton Under Heywood is a structure dating from the 18th and 19th centuries. It was originally a pigeon loft added to an earlier privy that included a pigsty beneath it. The building is constructed of brick set on a stone rubble plinth and features a plain gabled tiled roof with projecting verges.
The dovecote has three storeys, with plain doorways leading to the sty and privy, and a wooden casement window for the privy. The gable end includes pigeon holes, and there is a corner window for the pigeon loft. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Dovecote 10 Metres North of the Old Rectory receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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