Dovecote, Swallowfield Park is a Grade II listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. Dovecote, animal shed.
Dovecote, Swallowfield Park
- WRENN ID
- lunar-doorway-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wokingham
- Constituency
- Wokingham MP: Clive Jones (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Dovecote, animal shed
- Address
- Dovecote, Swallowfield Park, Church Road
- OS grid reference
- SU 730 654
- Coordinates
- 51.38351, -0.95213
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The dovecote and animal shed at Swallowfield Park dates from the mid-18th century. It is constructed of brick with a combination of slate and old tile on timber framing. The building has an octagonal shape and features an arcaded glover. Surrounding the dovecote is an open animal shed, which is supported at its corners by timber posts with shaped brackets. This shed has a hipped old tile roof that rises up to just below the eaves of the dovecote. Above, the dovecote itself has an octagonal hipped slate roof that culminates in a ball finial.
Local climate
Dovecote, Swallowfield Park receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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