Dovecote 30 Metres North West of Battles is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 October 1983. Dovecote.
Dovecote 30 Metres North West of Battles
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-plaster-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 October 1983
- Type
- Dovecote
- OS grid reference
- TL 475 277
- Coordinates
- 51.9285, 0.14432
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This dovecote, located 30 meters north-west of Battles, is a Grade II listed building dating from the 18th to 19th century. It is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond and features two storeys beneath a gambrel roof covered with old tiles. The building has a dogtooth cornice under the eaves. On the south end, there is a one-storey lean-to with the initials and date 1812 displayed above the entrance door.
Local climate
Dovecote 30 Metres North West of Battles 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 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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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