Dovecote South West of Columbary House is a Grade II listed building in the Wychavon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 February 1996. Dovecote.
Dovecote South West of Columbary House
- WRENN ID
- pale-timber-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wychavon
- Constituency
- Droitwich and Evesham MP: Nigel Huddleston (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 February 1996
- Type
- Dovecote
- Address
- Dovecote South West of Columbary House, Main Street, Cropthorne
- OS grid reference
- SO 996 447
- Coordinates
- 52.10135, -2.00668
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a dovecote located southwest of Columbary House, dating from the 17th century. It features a timber frame with brick nogging set on a dressed limestone plinth. The southwest front is constructed of red brick with limestone quoins and a lias plinth also with limestone quoins. The roof is made of stone tiles and has gabled ends.
The dovecote has a rectangular plan measuring approximately 30 feet by 15 feet, divided internally by a cross-wall. The exterior displays a square-panel box frame, with the northeast back wall consisting of eight panels wide and four panels tall, while the end walls are four panels wide. The southwest front is made of red brick with limestone quoins. There are two doorways: one on the northeast elevation to the left of center and another on the northwest end wall, both featuring plank doors. The lantern is missing.
Inside, there are two cells separated by a central partition that is open to the roof. The interior is lined with nesting holes, with brick lining and ledges under the holes on the southwest and end walls, and wooden nesting boxes on the northeast wall and the central partition wall. The structure has a tie-beam-and-collar truss with intermediate collars and birds-mouth joints to the through purlins, and the common-rafter couples are intact. The potences are missing.
Local climate
Dovecote South West of Columbary House receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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