Dovecote Approximately 30 Metres West of Great Codham Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1967. Dovecote.
Dovecote Approximately 30 Metres West of Great Codham Hall
- WRENN ID
- gentle-brass-stoat
- 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 737 280
- Coordinates
- 51.92378, 0.526
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The dovecote, built in the late 18th century, is located approximately 30 metres west of Great Codham Hall in Wethersfield. It is constructed of red brick in an irregular bond and features a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The dovecote has a square plan and faces northeast, standing at one storey high.
The central doorway has a two-centred arch made up of two plain orders with plain pilasters, and it is fitted with an oak door and frame. There are two dummy windows, which are outlined in bricks that project outward, each with two-centred heads and plain labels, along with a cross between them, similarly designed. The sides and back of the structure are plain.
The roof is pyramidal and topped with an octagonal wooden cupola, which has an ogival lead roof and a weathervane. The aperture of the dovecote is blocked. Inside, there are wooden racks on each side, featuring three tiers of nine nestboxes supported by wooden brackets. The nestboxes at the front and rear are positioned above those on the sides, all made of softwood. The floor is made of earth.
Local climate
Dovecote Approximately 30 Metres West of Great Codham Hall 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 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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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