Dovecote, Barn and Cowsheds Immediately North West of Perrywood Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 June 1986. Dovecote, barn, cowsheds.

Dovecote, Barn and Cowsheds Immediately North West of Perrywood Farmhouse

WRENN ID
grim-spandrel-elm
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Constituency
North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 June 1986
Type
Dovecote, barn, cowsheds
Address
Dovecote, Barn and Cowsheds Immediately North West of Perrywood Farmhouse, Perrywood Lane, Watton-At-Stone
OS grid reference
TL 293 180
Coordinates
51.84579, -0.12422
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Dovecote, Barn, and Cowsheds located immediately northwest of Perrywood Farmhouse form a planned group of linked farm buildings, dating from 1837. The entrance to the dovecote is made of yellow stock brick, while the barn and sheds are timber framed on brick bases and covered with weatherboarding. The roofs are mostly slate, except for the barn, which has corrugated sheeting.

The dovecote is octagonal in shape, with its entrance facing the farmhouse. It features a traceried semi-circular fanlight above the entrance, which has a gauged brick head. Each face of the dovecote has recessed panels and a continuous band at the impost level of the entrance arch. To the right of the entrance is a boarded opening, with a double door further to the right. The eaves courses project with a diagonally set brick course. The roof is finished with lead flashings and has a louvred cupola topped with a leaded ogee head and a ball finialed weathervane. Inside, the dovecote retains its original brick cots and ledges.

At the rear of the dovecote, there is a low range of open cart sheds that connects to a large eight-bay barn. The barn features double doors in bays two and seven, with short lean-to outshuts at the rear. There is a gabled outshut at the rear center and a lean-to outshut on the right end. Inside the barn, there are curved braces extending from straight posts to straight tie beams, and it has a king post roof with trenched purlins.

Attached to the right end of the barn, cow-sheds sweep around in a quadrant arc to enclose a yard. The three bays nearest the barn are open fronted with curved braces, while further to the right, there are double doors and fixed windows. The roof has a hip at the right end, where a short range returns towards the farmhouse.

Local climate

Dovecote, Barn and Cowsheds Immediately North West of Perrywood Farmhouse 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 88% 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 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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