Dovecot at Flixton Hall is a Grade II* listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. A Medieval Dovecote. 1 related planning application.
Dovecot at Flixton Hall
- WRENN ID
- tenth-garret-vale
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Dovecote
- Period
- Medieval
- OS grid reference
- TM 304 859
- Coordinates
- 52.42253, 1.38848
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The dovecot at Flixton Hall is a Grade II* listed structure dating from the early 17th century. It is constructed of red brick and covered with plain tiles. The dovecot is circular in shape and features a conical roof topped with an octagonal wooden cupola that has semi-circular arched openings and a concave roof. There are three square window openings at different heights, each with chamfered brick surrounds; one window retains its original leaded-paned casement. A small original doorway, positioned high on the structure, has a chamfered surround and a plank door. Inside, there are 23 tiers of small, square nesting boxes built into the walls. A central post rises to about 15 feet, supporting a circular platform at the top, with a ladder attached to it. The ladder features a single central shaft with rungs and rotates with the post, allowing access to the nesting boxes.
Local climate
Dovecot at Flixton 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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