Barn Adjacent to Dovecote at Olivers is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Barn.

Barn Adjacent to Dovecote at Olivers

WRENN ID
crumbling-quoin-lark
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Colchester
Constituency
Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 January 1982
Type
Barn
OS grid reference
TL 966 213
Coordinates
51.85642, 0.85401
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is an 18th-century barn located adjacent to the dovecote at Oliver's Lane in Stanway. It features a three-bay timber frame and is covered in black weatherboarding, topped with a red plain tile hipped roof. There is a hipped midstrey and later lean-to extensions on the west side.

Local climate

Barn Adjacent to Dovecote at Olivers sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 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 51% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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