Dovecote Approximately 30 Metres West of Dovecote Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1951. Dovecote.
Dovecote Approximately 30 Metres West of Dovecote Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- sacred-rafter-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 November 1951
- Type
- Dovecote
- OS grid reference
- SP 497 287
- Coordinates
- 51.95474, -1.27713
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a dovecote built in 1719, as indicated by a datestone. It is constructed from coursed squared limestone and has a Stonesfield-slate roof, featuring a square plan. The front of the dovecote has a low doorway with a plank door and a heavy wooden lintel, along with an ashlar band. Each of the four sides has a narrow rectangular opening in the gable, and the front also displays a datestone in an oval recess, although the inscription is now mostly illegible. At the top, a central wooden glover is topped with a weathervane. Inside, the walls are lined with over 1,000 brick nesting boxes separated by stone ledges, and the roof retains its original cross beams.
Local climate
Dovecote Approximately 30 Metres West of Dovecote Farmhouse 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 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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