Donkey Wheel About 15 Metres North of Ratling Court is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 December 1986. Industrial.
Donkey Wheel About 15 Metres North of Ratling Court
- WRENN ID
- frozen-remnant-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Dover and Deal MP: Mike Tapp (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 December 1986
- Type
- Industrial
- OS grid reference
- TR 239 537
- Coordinates
- 51.23856, 1.20751
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The donkey wheel, located about 15 metres north of Ratling Court, is a 18th-century structure made of timber and topped with a thatched roof. It features a wheel with a vertical shaft and drum, where the upper and lower harness beams are staggered and connected by a timber harness. The central truss of the machinery supports the circular thatched housing, which likely originally had weather boarded sides. Attached to the wheel house is a timber framed and thatched open-sided pentice that extends to the north wing of Ratling Court. This pentice consists of three bays with a brick and cobbled floor, a clasped purlin roof, and various hooks and wooden wall frames intended for agricultural practices.
Local climate
Donkey Wheel About 15 Metres North of Ratling Court receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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