Dovecote 140 Metres East of Oxburgh Hall is a Grade II listed building in the King0s Lynn and West Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 July 1986. Dovecote.
Dovecote 140 Metres East of Oxburgh Hall
- WRENN ID
- fallow-lead-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- King0s Lynn and West Norfolk
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 July 1986
- Type
- Dovecote
- OS grid reference
- TF 478 077
- Coordinates
- 52.64761, 0.18451
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a mid-18th century dovecote located 140 meters east of Oxburgh Hall. It is built of brick and has a slate roof, featuring an octagonal shape with two storeys. There is a square door opening on the southwest side, below a square window, with a similar window on the opposite side. A flat string course runs along the first floor, topped by a deeply moulded timber cornice. The roof structure has collapsed, and there is no internal division of the storeys, which contain 13 tiers of nesting boxes.
Local climate
Dovecote 140 Metres East of Oxburgh Hall sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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