Gade House is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 August 1970. Dovecote.
Gade House
- WRENN ID
- solemn-roof-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 August 1970
- Type
- Dovecote
- Address
- Gade House, Little Gaddesden
- OS grid reference
- TL 001 122
- Coordinates
- 51.80021, -0.54885
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gade House is a dovecote located in Little Gaddesden, built in the early 18th century but likely constructed in 1821 by Jeffry Wyatt as an antiquarian project. It was converted into part of a house in the 1970s. The structure is made of red brick in Flemish bond, featuring some blue headers, and has a battered base faced with York stone slabs that have tooled margins. The dovecote has a steep tiled octagonal roof with a small hipped dormer on each side and an open octagonal cupola topped with an ogee roof and a vane.
The building includes single-storey red brick and tiled extensions, leaving half of the dovecote exposed. It is a notably large octagonal dovecote with walls that rise straight to corbelled eaves courses, which consist of two courses of modillions and a plain course in between. The tall open cupola likely served as a protected entrance for birds. The north face features a flat gauged arch doorway and two narrow windows positioned low down. The dovecote measures 17 feet 10 inches wide, has a 5-foot base, reaches 25 feet to the eaves, and has a roof height of about 17 feet.
Local climate
Gade House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% 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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