Dovecote Approximately 20 Metres South of Middlefield Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1988. Dovecote.
Dovecote Approximately 20 Metres South of Middlefield Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- solitary-newel-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 June 1988
- Type
- Dovecote
- OS grid reference
- SP 363 111
- Coordinates
- 51.79791, -1.47377
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a dovecote located approximately 20 meters south of Middlefield Farmhouse, dating from the early 17th century. It is built from coursed limestone rubble and features a gabled stone slate roof. The structure is a tall, narrow block with a one-unit plan, standing two storeys high and comprising a one-window range. The doorway has a stop-chamfered timber lintel, and there are hood moulds above early 17th-century one-light hollow-moulded round-arched windows with sunk spandrels on the ground floor and in the gable. The right side wall includes a first-floor doorway leading to the dovecote. Inside, the ground-floor loose box has recesses in the walls, while the dovecote above contains nesting holes.
Local climate
Dovecote Approximately 20 Metres South of Middlefield Farmhouse 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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