Dovecote and Attached Garden Walls is a Grade II listed building in the Redbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1979. Dovecote, garden walls.
Dovecote and Attached Garden Walls
- WRENN ID
- weathered-baluster-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Redbridge
- Constituency
- Ilford North MP: Wes Streeting (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1979
- Type
- Dovecote, garden walls
- Address
- Dovecote and Attached Garden Walls, Valentines Park
- OS grid reference
- TQ 433 879
- Coordinates
- 51.57253, 0.06668
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The dovecote and attached garden walls date from the early to mid-18th century and are located in Valentines Park, Ilford. The dovecote is two-storey and octagonal in shape, built from plum brick with red brick dressings. It features ogee windows at first floor height and has a shallow pitched slate roof. The dovecote is connected to an L-shaped walled garden that is open to the north. The garden walls are made of both red brick laid in English Bond and yellow and philstock brick. There are several arched openings in the walls, some of which are blocked. The western section of the walled garden was originally the kitchen garden, while the eastern section is a formal garden. The wall to the north of the mid-19th century gardener's cottage on the west side is notably wide, with a heated internal cavity designed for fruit growing. A bronze plaque commemorating the '1951 Festival of Britain' is affixed to the site, marking the location of a famous vine that once grew there. Valentines Park is also recognized in the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens at grade II.
Local climate
Dovecote and Attached Garden Walls sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% 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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