Dovecote Approximately 7 Metres North East of the Quarters is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 February 1950. Dovecote.
Dovecote Approximately 7 Metres North East of the Quarters
- WRENN ID
- turning-hearth-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tendring
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 February 1950
- Type
- Dovecote
- OS grid reference
- TM 072 201
- Coordinates
- 51.84126, 1.00696
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an 18th-century dovecote located approximately 7 metres northeast of The Quarters in Alresford Park. It is constructed of red brick and features a red plain tiled roof. The dovecote has a square plan and includes a vertically boarded door, with a louvred opening on the south face. The roof is pyramidal and topped with a square, partially plastered shaft that also has a pyramidal roof. Some timber pigeon holes can still be seen high up on the walls.
Local climate
Dovecote Approximately 7 Metres North East of the Quarters sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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