Dovecot in Garden of Medway House is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 July 1984. A C18 Dovecote. 1 related planning application.
Dovecot in Garden of Medway House
- WRENN ID
- iron-storey-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 July 1984
- Type
- Dovecote
- Address
- Dovecot in Garden of Medway House, Pilgrims Way, Detling, ME14 3JY
- OS grid reference
- TQ 794 583
- Coordinates
- 51.29585, 0.57184
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The dovecote in the garden of Medway House is an 18th-century structure built from chequered red and grey brick on a galletted stone plinth, topped with a plain tile roof. It has a square shape with a hipped roof on all sides, featuring small gabled dormers on all sides except the east. The roof hips end in small square wooden louvres with conical lead roofs. There is a plain door located in the center of the west wall. Inside, there are ten storeys of brick nesting boxes in each wall.
Local climate
Dovecot in Garden of Medway House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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
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