Cottage and Dovecote Approximately 80 Metres to North of White House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 January 1985. Cottage, dovecote.

Cottage and Dovecote Approximately 80 Metres to North of White House Farmhouse

WRENN ID
drifting-gateway-ebony
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Shropshire
Constituency
South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 January 1985
Type
Cottage, dovecote
OS grid reference
SO 313 849
Coordinates
52.45794, -3.01157
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The cottage and dovecote, located approximately 80 metres north of White House Farmhouse, is a disused structure that likely dates from the late 17th century. It is built from coursed limestone rubble and features a graded stone slate roof, with an integral end stack on the right that has a 19th-century brick top. The building is two storeys high and has a central gabled break showcasing an exposed inclined queen-strut truss. There are two boarded doors on the first floor and two boarded doors on the ground floor, with an additional boarded door to the right. The left gable end includes a boarded loft door and dove nesting boxes with ledges beneath. At the rear, there is a central first-floor two-light leaded casement window, a ground-floor two-light casement window to the right, and a boarded door to the left. Inside, there is a central timber-framed partition wall with square panels.

Local climate

Cottage and Dovecote Approximately 80 Metres to North of White House Farmhouse receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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