Dovecote at Lodge Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Gravesham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 July 1983. Dovecote.
Dovecote at Lodge Farm
- WRENN ID
- sunken-fireplace-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gravesham
- Constituency
- Gravesham MP: Dr Lauren Sullivan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 July 1983
- Type
- Dovecote
- Address
- Dovecote at Lodge Farm, Lodge Lane, Cobham
- OS grid reference
- TQ 680 683
- Coordinates
- 51.38941, 0.41368
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The dovecote at Lodge Farm is an 18th-century structure built in an octagonal shape using red brick with grey headers. It features a tiled roof topped with a painted wood lantern and a ball finial. The brickwork includes nesting holes for pigeons.
Local climate
Dovecote at Lodge Farm sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% 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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