Dovehouse Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1980. A C16 Farmhouse.
Dovehouse Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- lone-corner-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1980
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Dovehouse Farmhouse, Great Sampford
- OS grid reference
- TL 622 348
- Coordinates
- 51.988, 0.36075
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dovehouse Farmhouse is a 16th century timber-framed and plastered house that has undergone later alterations and additions. It has been renovated and features a main block that is one storey with attics, along with a two-storey gabled wing at the east end. The house has casement windows with lattice leaded lights and a modern gabled porch that projects from the front. The roof is tiled and includes three gabled dormers on the front.
Local climate
Dovehouse Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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