Wall, Stables and Dovecot South of Tunstall House is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1952. Garden wall, dovecot, stables. 1 related planning application.
Wall, Stables and Dovecot South of Tunstall House
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-basalt-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1952
- Type
- Garden wall, dovecot, stables
- Address
- Wall, Stables and Dovecot South of Tunstall House, Tunstall Road, ME9 8DX
- OS grid reference
- TQ 894 618
- Coordinates
- 51.32381, 0.71728
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A 17th-century garden wall, stables, and dovecot, located south of Tunstall House. The wall is constructed of chequered red and blue brick in English bond, with plain tiled roofs. It runs approximately 70 yards along the road to the east of Tunstall House, returning to enclose a courtyard for a further 50 yards. The wall features weathered buttresses along the road frontage (22 in total), two sets of gate piers with cornices and ball finials to the east, and one set to the west, forming the rear wall of the courtyard.
In the south-east corner stands a two-storey stable block, built on a plinth with a plat band, and topped with a hipped roof featuring stacks to the rear right and centre. It has three leaded wood casements on the first floor, two segment-headed wood casements on the ground floor, and a boarded door on the left side. The central section has a double door with a tiled pentice, and a boarded door to the right.
The south-west corner accommodates a single-storey dovecot, also on a plinth with a plat band, and a hipped roof with a lantern, including one hipped dormer. A central boarded door provides access.
Local climate
Wall, Stables and Dovecot South of Tunstall 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 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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