Dovecote 10 Yards West of Hurst Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the Mole Valley local planning authority area, England. Dovecote.
Dovecote 10 Yards West of Hurst Farm House
- WRENN ID
- strange-gallery-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mole Valley
- Constituency
- Dorking and Horley MP: Chris Coghlan (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Dovecote
- OS grid reference
- TQ 206 559
- Coordinates
- 51.28999, -0.27087
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dovecote, probably early 19th century, located 10 yards west of Hurst Farm House on Hurst Road in Headley. It is constructed of flint with brick quoins and banding, topped with a Welsh slate roof. The building is square in plan and has two storeys, with a single storey catslide roof at the rear. The east face features a brick-dressed door with a boarded door and an arched birdhole above it. The roof is pyramidal with a raised cap. There is one casement window in the catslide at the rear, a doorway on the left side, and a corner chimney. Inside, the walls of the upper stage are lined with wooden nesting boxes.
Local climate
Dovecote 10 Yards West of Hurst Farm House 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 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% 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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