Outbuilding Immediately West of Dovecote Quode Vide 3/5 The Quarters is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 April 1987. Outbuilding.

Outbuilding Immediately West of Dovecote Quode Vide 3/5 The Quarters

WRENN ID
leaning-entrance-barley
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tendring
Constituency
Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 April 1987
Type
Outbuilding
Address
Outbuilding Immediately West of Dovecote Quode Vide 3/5 The Quarters, Ford Lane, Alresford
OS grid reference
TM 072 201
Coordinates
51.84132, 1.00693
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This small outbuilding, dating from the 18th century, is located immediately west of the Dovecote at Alresford Park. It is constructed of red brick and features a red plain tiled roof. The building has a vertically boarded door on the left side, with a louvred opening to the right and another louvred opening on the return gable. There are suggestions that this outbuilding may have originally served as the kitchen for the summerhouse or fishing lodge. It is included in the listing for its group value.

Local climate

Outbuilding Immediately West of Dovecote Quode Vide 3/5 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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