Dovecote 10 Metres to Rear of P Strainge's Butcher's Shop is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. Dovecote.

Dovecote 10 Metres to Rear of P Strainge's Butcher's Shop

WRENN ID
lone-soffit-ebony
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Oxfordshire
Constituency
Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
Country
England
Type
Dovecote
OS grid reference
SP 314 030
Coordinates
51.72559, -1.54598
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The building is a dovecote located 10 meters to the rear of P. Strainge's Butcher's Shop on Bampton Bridge Street. It is likely from the 17th century and has been altered in the 20th century. The structure is made of coursed rubble limestone with semi-dressed quoins and features a stone slate roof with moulded gable copings. It is rectangular in shape with a tall loft.

Each gable end has a high chamfered stone mullion window that contains two arched lights and is topped with a Tudor hoodmould. The east side has a 20th-century garage opening, a boarded door with a fanlight and wooden lintel to the right, and a small boarded door at first floor level within a chamfered stone surround. At the center of the roof is a square wooden glover topped with a stone ball finial.

Inside, the dovecote retains nesting boxes. Both gable ends have later extensions; the south gable features a lean-to garage, while the north gable has a stone slated gabled projection and a 20th-century flat-roofed rendered extension that is used as a butcher's store.

Local climate

Dovecote 10 Metres to Rear of P Strainge's Butcher's Shop 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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