Dovecote at Estate Yard Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1974. Dovecote, kennels, store.

Dovecote at Estate Yard Cottages

WRENN ID
narrow-latch-jay
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Shropshire
Constituency
South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 March 1974
Type
Dovecote, kennels, store
Address
Dovecote at Estate Yard Cottages, Millichope Park, Munslow
OS grid reference
SO 529 883
Coordinates
52.49126, -2.69398
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The dovecote at Estate Yard Cottages, now used as kennels and a store, dates from the early 19th century. It is constructed of stone rubble with ashlar dressings and features plain hipped and gabled tiled roofs. The building has a square plan and serves as a focal point in the open side of a larger courtyard.

The exterior has three symmetrical sides, with simple pilasters that divide the wall face into three recessed panels, each containing a boarded door and loft openings topped with brick segmental-arched lintels. The fourth side is covered by a lean-to bay that has a gabled pediment featuring a roundel in the tympanum raised in the roof pitch. The hipped tiled roof is topped with a stone cupola that has four simple pedimented faces, each with three slits.

The dovecote is part of a group with the Estate Yard Cottages, Keepers Cottage, Barn, and Cartshed, showcasing a complete example of early 19th-century planning of an estate village.

Local climate

Dovecote at Estate Yard Cottages 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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  2. Barn at Estate Yard Cottages Grade II 34 m
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  4. 1 and 2 and 3 Estate Yard Cottages and Beambridge Clubroom and 61 Upper Millichope Grade II 48 m
  5. Smithy Grade II 235 m
  6. Beam Bridge Grade II 307 m
  7. Millichope Park Including Terrace Balustrade Grade II* 345 m
  8. Church of St Michael Grade I 1.1 km
  9. The Bakery Grade II 1.1 km
  10. Munslow House Grade II 1.1 km