Dovecote at Manor Farm is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1957. Dovecote. 2 related planning applications.
Dovecote at Manor Farm
- WRENN ID
- iron-rafter-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1957
- Type
- Dovecote
- Address
- Dovecote at Manor Farm, Ball Lane, Tackley, OX5 3AG
- OS grid reference
- SP 476 204
- Coordinates
- 51.88075, -1.30871
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This dovecote, located at Manor Farm on Tackley Ball Lane, is thought to date from 1616 and was likely built for John Harborne. It is constructed of regular coursed limestone, with alternating bands of wide and narrow courses. The building has a moulded plinth and a strongly projecting string course, and is topped with a stone slate roof featuring gabled ends. The plan is square, and the structure comprises one storey and an attic. The west side features a wide plank door set beneath a painted wood lintel. An upper floor contains an indecipherable datestone within a moulded surround. Each gable has a two-light recessed mullioned window with a hood mould. A square, open timber lantern sits atop the structure. The other elevations are similar in design. Inside, there are nesting boxes.
Local climate
Dovecote at Manor Farm sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 3 transactions since 1999
- 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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