Dovecote in the grounds of the Tithe Barn, about 9 metres south of the house is a Grade I listed building in the Windsor and Maidenhead local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1955. A Medieval Dovecote.
Dovecote in the grounds of the Tithe Barn, about 9 metres south of the house
- WRENN ID
- broken-remnant-snow
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Windsor and Maidenhead
- Constituency
- Maidenhead MP: Mr Joshua Reynolds (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1955
- Type
- Dovecote
- Period
- Medieval
- OS grid reference
- SU 824 840
- Coordinates
- 51.54891, -0.81182
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The dovecote, now disused, is a medieval structure located about 9 metres south of The Tithe Barn in Hurley. It is built from chalk and flint, with later brickwork, and features an old tile conical roof that has an open dormer above the eaves and an open turret at the top. The building is supported by four buttresses, each with two offsets and a brick base. There is a small plank entrance door on the east side, which has a stone lintel and a pointed relieving arch, accessed by six stone rubble steps.
Inside, a revolving ladder from a central newel post provides access to nesting boxes that are nearly continuous along the walls. This dovecote originally belonged to Hurley Priory and is designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
Local climate
Dovecote in the grounds of the Tithe Barn, about 9 metres south of the house sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% 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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