Dovecote at Church End House is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 August 1983. A C18 Dovecote.
Dovecote at Church End House
- WRENN ID
- dark-beam-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 August 1983
- Type
- Dovecote
- Address
- Dovecote at Church End House, High Street, Wilden
- OS grid reference
- TL 092 553
- Coordinates
- 52.18567, -0.4037
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The dovecote at Church End House is an 18th-century structure. It is timber framed with colour washed brick infill and features a half-hipped roof made of old clay tiles. The building is a small rectangular block, consisting of one storey and an attic. The east gable has a small attic window. On the south elevation, there is a central plank door flanked by two windows, along with a weatherboarded gablet on the roof that has openings for access for birds.
Local climate
Dovecote at Church End House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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