Dovecote Approximately 75 Metres West North West of Spains Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1967. A C18 Dovecote.
Dovecote Approximately 75 Metres West North West of Spains Hall
- WRENN ID
- empty-pediment-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 1967
- Type
- Dovecote
- OS grid reference
- TL 678 340
- Coordinates
- 51.97966, 0.44197
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an 18th-century dovecote located approximately 75 metres west-north-west of Spains Hall. It is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond and incorporates an earlier wall made of flint rubble at the rear. The dovecote has a square shape and features a halved door facing southeast, set in a recessed panel. It is topped with a pyramidal roof that has a wooden louvre and a slated pyramidal roof. Inside, there is one of two hinged flaps to close the louvre, and the nest boxes have been removed.
Local climate
Dovecote Approximately 75 Metres West North West of Spains Hall sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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