Dovecote, 130 Metres West of Chapel Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1988. Dovecote.
Dovecote, 130 Metres West of Chapel Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- broken-rampart-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1988
- Type
- Dovecote
- OS grid reference
- TM 070 635
- Coordinates
- 52.23162, 1.03009
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The dovecote, located 130 meters west of Chapel Farmhouse, dates from the early 18th century. It is constructed with a timber frame and plaster, featuring wattle and daub infill. The roof is pyramid-shaped and covered with plain tiles. The dovecote has an octagonal plan and includes louvred windows on two opposite sides beneath the eaves. A lead-clad turret has collapsed, and there is a plank door on the east side. Inside, the walls are lined with unfired brick in stretcher bond, with every fourth course made of fired red brick that projects slightly to support nesting boxes, which have all been removed. Much of the lower internal walling has been rebuilt using 19th and 20th-century brick. The oak-framed roof is notable, featuring principal rafters at the angles and tenoned purlins. At the time of the survey, the dovecote was in poor condition and partly unroofed.
Local climate
Dovecote, 130 Metres West of Chapel Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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