Dovecote to the North of Writtle Park Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1975. Dovecote.
Dovecote to the North of Writtle Park Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- swift-truss-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1975
- Type
- Dovecote
- OS grid reference
- TL 649 036
- Coordinates
- 51.70756, 0.38562
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The dovecote to the north of Writtle Park Farmhouse is likely the only remaining circular dovecote in Essex. This building, constructed in the 18th century, is made of red brick with a header bond and may be built on an earlier Tudor foundation. It has two storeys and features a conical tiled roof, which is no longer topped by a louvre but does have an old weather vane and a moulded brick cornice. There are no nests remaining inside. The dovecote stands alone in the middle of a field.
Local climate
Dovecote to the North of Writtle Park Farmhouse 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 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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