Dovehouse Approximately 7 Metres South East of Blois Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 May 1984. Dovehouse.
Dovehouse Approximately 7 Metres South East of Blois Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- other-buttress-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 May 1984
- Type
- Dovehouse
- OS grid reference
- TL 685 415
- Coordinates
- 52.04688, 0.45622
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dovehouse, built around 1800, is located approximately 7 metres southeast of Blois Farmhouse. It has a timber frame and is weatherboarded, with a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The structure has a square plan and its exterior is completely covered by creeper. Inside, the dovehouse is lined with nesting boxes made of flat vertical and horizontal slabs of unfired clay mixed with chopped straw, which are approximately 25mm thick. Dovehouses constructed in this manner are rare in Essex.
Local climate
Dovehouse Approximately 7 Metres South East of Blois Farmhouse 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 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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