Dovecote and Attached Outbuilding Approximately 10 Metres North of South Hill House and Number 3 is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 June 1988. Dovecote, outbuilding.
Dovecote and Attached Outbuilding Approximately 10 Metres North of South Hill House and Number 3
- WRENN ID
- riven-hammer-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 June 1988
- Type
- Dovecote, outbuilding
- OS grid reference
- SP 358 178
- Coordinates
- 51.85819, -1.48085
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a dovecote and attached outbuilding, likely built in the late 17th century or early 18th century. It is constructed from coursed limestone rubble and features a stone slate roof. The dovecote itself is made of squared and coursed limestone with stone dressings and has a pyramidal stone slate roof topped with a lead finial. The structure has two levels, with the dovecote at the south-west end rising two storeys over a basement, while the outbuilding is a single storey.
The south-west front of the dovecote includes a lunette loft opening with a moulded cill, a boarded door at ground level with a wooden lintel, and three square openings above set in a large, decayed stone lintel. The left-hand return front features a central window with a wooden lintel and two boarded doors, also with wooden lintels; the right-hand door leads to the dovecote's basement.
Inside the dovecote, there are three tiers of nesting boxes built into the walls, along with wooden ledges and spacers. A central wooden potence supports the structure, and the roof is supported by crossed tie-beams.
Local climate
Dovecote and Attached Outbuilding Approximately 10 Metres North of South Hill House and Number 3 receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% 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 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% 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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