Dovecote at Kirstead Hall is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. A C18 Dovecote.
Dovecote at Kirstead Hall
- WRENN ID
- sheer-rafter-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Dovecote
- Address
- Dovecote at Kirstead Hall, Brooke Road
- OS grid reference
- TM 295 985
- Coordinates
- 52.53666, 1.38319
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The dovecote at Kirstead Hall is an 18th-century structure with a 17th-century brick base. It is made of brick and features a tiled roof, designed in an octagonal shape. The eastern face has a 20th-century door and doorway, complete with a fanlight above, set under a segmental arch. There are windows with slats on the west and southwest faces, also under segmental arches. A moulded drip course runs below the eaves, and the brickwork above this was restored around 1980. The top of the dovecote is octagonal and louvred, topped with a glass-fibre ogee cap that is coloured to imitate lead. Inside, there are nest boxes on three faces, and the roof timbers date to around 1980. This dovecote is included for its group value.
Local climate
Dovecote at Kirstead Hall 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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