Dovecote in the Grounds of Bydews Place is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 August 1974. Dovecote.
Dovecote in the Grounds of Bydews Place
- WRENN ID
- white-span-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Maidstone and Malling MP: Helen Grant (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 August 1974
- Type
- Dovecote
- Address
- Dovecote in the Grounds of Bydews Place, Tovil Green
- OS grid reference
- TQ 748 543
- Coordinates
- 51.26133, 0.50496
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The dovecote in the grounds of Bydews Place is a structure dating from the 17th century or earlier. It was altered in the 19th century when it was converted into a cottage. The building is two storeys high, constructed of stone, and features a conical tiled roof with a hipped pigeon entrance and a yellow brick chimney stack. There is a stringcourse present, and the dovecote has two inserted 19th-century casement windows with modern leaded lights. The doorcase has a cambered arch. Inside, the ground floor contains pigeon holes, and there is a 19th-century semi-circular wooden staircase. This dovecote is part of a group that includes Bydews Place, a cottage to the north-west, Bydews Farmhouse, a former granary to the south-west of Bydews Farmhouse, and an oasthouse located south-west of the former granary.
Local climate
Dovecote in the Grounds of Bydews Place sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% 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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