Dovecote, Stable and Granary at Rectory Farm is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 May 1968. Dovecote, stable, granary. 4 related planning applications.
Dovecote, Stable and Granary at Rectory Farm
- WRENN ID
- graven-wicket-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 May 1968
- Type
- Dovecote, stable, granary
- Address
- Dovecote, Stable and Granary at Rectory Farm, Shillington Road, Pirton, SG5 3DH
- OS grid reference
- TL 141 319
- Coordinates
- 51.97401, -0.33995
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Dovecote, Stable, and Granary at Rectory Farm is a group of agricultural buildings dating from the early 17th century, with the granary from the 18th century and a small stable added in the 19th century. The dovecote is constructed of narrow red brick in English bond and features a steep hipped-and-gablet roof covered with old red tiles, along with plastered gablets. The granary is built from red brick with black headers in Flemish bond and has a half-hipped red tiled roof. The stable is a low structure made of brick and slate.
This tall single-storey range consists of three buildings located slightly west of the farmhouse. The dovecote is at the west end, the stable is in the middle facing south, and the granary is at the east end, entered through its eastern gable. The granary has a stepped plinth and is oriented east-west, with a central door and gablets that were formerly louvred. Inside, it features two cross-beams and has a raised floor with a row of four round-arched openings in the plinth at the base of each side. There is also a boarded door at the upper level on the eastern end, with a two-light window above it. The stable has a central door on its southern side.
Local climate
Dovecote, Stable and Granary at Rectory Farm 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 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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