Dovecote Approximately 150 Metres to West of Wasing Place is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 April 1967. A C18 Dovecote. 1 related planning application.
Dovecote Approximately 150 Metres to West of Wasing Place
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-doorway-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire MP: Olivia Bailey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 April 1967
- Type
- Dovecote
- OS grid reference
- SU 575 643
- Coordinates
- 51.37533, -1.17427
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a dovecote built in the late 18th century, located approximately 150 metres to the west of Wasing Place. It features grey brick headers and has a dentil brick eaves cornice beneath a conical old tile roof. The roof includes a gabled dormer on the south side and is topped by a low cupola with a tiled pyramidal roof. The dovecote has a circular plan and a boarded door on the north side. Inside, it retains a central post, a revolving ladder, and brick nesting boxes built into the wall.
Local climate
Dovecote Approximately 150 Metres to West of Wasing Place receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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