Dovecote is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. Former dovecote. 2 related planning applications.
Dovecote
- WRENN ID
- lost-pillar-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Former dovecote
- Address
- Dovecote, Bushey Row, Bampton, OX18 2JX
- OS grid reference
- SP 316 032
- Coordinates
- 51.72704, -1.54373
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a former dovecote that also served as a coach-house and stabling, which has been converted into a house in the 20th century. It dates from the late 18th century to early 19th century and has been carefully altered in the 20th century. The structure is made of coursed limestone rubble and features stone slate roofs.
The tall central bay, which houses the dovecote over the coach-house, is gabled on all four sides and has a gabled weatherboarded glover topped with a weathervane. The front gable includes a high boarded loft door, four arched dove entries, a 20th-century single leaded light with a concrete lintel below, and double coach-house doors set in a depressed arch of dressed stone, complete with a keyblock. Flanking the central bay are 20th-century rainwater heads marked with the initials DS.
On either side of the central bay are lower stable wings, each with roofs hipped towards the far ends. The left wing features two 20th-century leaded single lights and a stable-type door with a small glazed panel. The right wing has a similar single light and a half-glazed door with leaded glazing. All openings in these wings have wooden lintels, and each wing includes a small hipped roof dormer with a single leaded casement.
Local climate
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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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