Ruins of Abbey Dovecote and Part of Wall is a Grade I listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1972. A C12 Dovecote.
Ruins of Abbey Dovecote and Part of Wall
- WRENN ID
- half-spire-blackthorn
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 July 1972
- Type
- Dovecote
- Address
- Ruins of Abbey Dovecote and Part of Wall, Abbey Precincts, Bury St. Edmunds
- OS grid reference
- TL 857 642
- Coordinates
- 52.24532, 0.71969
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The ruins of the Abbey dovecote, along with a section of wall, date back to the 12th century and feature later alterations. Constructed from coursed flint with stone quoins and dressings, the dovecote was originally two storeys high but is now roofless and hexagonal in shape. On the ground floor, there are remnants of a narrow arched doorway and a small rectangular window. The upper storey includes a blocked window with a rounded head and a two-light mullion-and-transom window that has cusping to the lights and a rectangular hood-mould, both of which were added later. The wall has a doorway with a stone surround and two wide later openings, and it was originally part of a wing of rooms that flanked the garden. Inside, the wall thickness is reduced above the ground storey, creating a shelf that once supported the timbers of the upper floor. The upper walls still show broken remains of nesting-boxes. This site is also designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
Local climate
Ruins of Abbey Dovecote and Part of Wall 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 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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