Dove House Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1987. Cottage.
Dove House Cottage
- WRENN ID
- guardian-cobalt-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Dove House Cottage, Church Street, Aspley Guise
- OS grid reference
- SP 944 362
- Coordinates
- 52.01704, -0.62517
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dove House Cottage is a former dovecote that belonged to the Old House, converted into a cottage in the 19th century and refenestrated in the 20th century. The building dates from the late 18th century and is constructed of red brick with a random scattering of vitrified headers. It features a clay tile roof that is hipped at the lower part and has a gablet at the upper part. The structure is small and square, comprising two storeys and attics.
On the ground floor, there are two 2-light casements on both the west and east elevations, with the east ones flanking a glazed door. The first floor has small round-arched single lights on the west, south, and east elevations, with the south and east lights featuring gauged brick heads. The attic includes small box dormers, and all windows have glazing bars. A brick band runs at first floor level, and there is a brick dentil cornice at the eaves. The gablet has three rows of doveholes on each end.
To the north, the main part of the property consists of two converted barns arranged in an L-plan. These barns are weatherboarded with clay tile roofs and were imported from elsewhere during the 20th-century renovations, thus they are not of historic interest.
Local climate
Dove House Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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