Dovecote to the Deanery is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1951. Dovecote. 6 related planning applications.
Dovecote to the Deanery
- WRENN ID
- steep-flagstone-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1951
- Type
- Dovecote
- Address
- Dovecote to the Deanery, Deanery Hill, CM7 5SR
- OS grid reference
- TL 756 253
- Coordinates
- 51.89926, 0.55118
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Dovecote to the Deanery is a 17th-century timber-framed and weather-boarded building located to the south of the Deanery, west of the entrance drive. It is two storeys high and retains its original wattle and daub nesting boxes, numbering around 135. The roof is tiled and features a pyramid shape that rises to a cruciform gabled bird entrance.
Local climate
Dovecote to the Deanery sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2024
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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