Dovecot to East of Court Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 October 1982. Dovecot.
Dovecot to East of Court Lodge
- WRENN ID
- crooked-pier-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Sevenoaks MP: Laura Trott (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 October 1982
- Type
- Dovecot
- Address
- Dovecot to East of Court Lodge, Horton Road, Horton Kirby and South Darenth
- OS grid reference
- TQ 561 686
- Coordinates
- 51.39501, 0.24352
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The dovecot located to the east of Court Lodge is an 18th-century ornamental structure with a cylindrical shape. It is faced with flints and features buff brick dressings, quoins, and a modillion cornice. The roof is nearly conical and tiled, topped with a small square wooden superstructure that serves as the birds' entrance, which is covered by a hipped tiled roof. The entrance is round-headed and has a circular tablet above it.
Local climate
Dovecot to East of Court Lodge 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% 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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