Dovecote About 15 Metres West of Gosmere Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1986. A C17 Dovecote.
Dovecote About 15 Metres West of Gosmere Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- iron-cloister-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 November 1986
- Type
- Dovecote
- OS grid reference
- TR 022 574
- Coordinates
- 51.28004, 0.89871
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This dovecote, located about 15 metres west of Gosmere Farmhouse, dates from the 17th century and is now used as a chicken house. It is constructed with a timber frame and weatherboarding, topped with a plain tiled roof. The building features two boarded doors and has a hipped roof. Inside, the structure consists of two square bays, with holes for doves located in the rear walls.
Local climate
Dovecote About 15 Metres West of Gosmere Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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