Brightwell Park, Dovecote Approximately 220 Metres North North East of Brightwell Park is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 April 1987. Dovecote.
Brightwell Park, Dovecote Approximately 220 Metres North North East of Brightwell Park
- WRENN ID
- broken-basalt-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 April 1987
- Type
- Dovecote
- OS grid reference
- SU 652 954
- Coordinates
- 51.65362, -1.05767
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brightwell Park Dovecote is an early 17th-century structure built from coursed limestone rubble with ashlar quoins and brick door and window dressings. It features a hipped roof covered with 20th-century tiles and has a plan shaped like a Greek cross. The dovecote stands two storeys tall and has a one-window range. There is a label mould above the round-arched doorway, which has a studded door, and another label mould over a two-light wood-mullioned window on the first floor, set in a chamfered surround. The roof is topped with two octagonal glover finials. Similar windows can be found on the sides and rear of the building. Inside, there are brick nesting boxes and ledges.
Local climate
Brightwell Park, Dovecote Approximately 220 Metres North North East of Brightwell Park 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 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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