Home Farm Dovecote is a Grade II* listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 January 1986. Dovecote. 1 related planning application.
Home Farm Dovecote
- WRENN ID
- winding-storey-finch
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 January 1986
- Type
- Dovecote
- Address
- Home Farm Dovecote, Buckland, SN7 8RG
- OS grid reference
- SU 340 967
- Coordinates
- 51.66813, -1.50885
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a dovecote, likely constructed between 1755 and 1775, possibly designed by Richard Woods or John Wood the Younger for Sir Robert Throckmorton of Buckland House. The dovecote is built of squared and coursed limestone, with ashlar quoins and rusticated dressings. It is octagonal in plan and has a stone tile hipped roof. The design is in the Gothic style. Each side features a pointed blind arch. A doorway is inset into the northeast side, set within a cambered brick arch and featuring a plank door. Above the doorway are blind quatrefoils alternating with blind loops. The building has rusticated bands at storey level and at the eaves, along with a rusticated plinth. A small octagonal lantern sits atop the roof, with arcaded sides, a stone tile roof, and a ball finial. The interior walls are lined with red brick in a chequer pattern, containing nesting boxes with brick ledges. A central potence (a wooden beam from which pigeons were released) is strengthened by diagonal braces.
Local climate
Home Farm Dovecote receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 8 transactions since 1995
- 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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