Dovecotes and the Gatehouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Sussex local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1979. Gatehouse, dovecotes.
Dovecotes and the Gatehouse
- WRENN ID
- eastward-tracery-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Sussex
- Constituency
- East Grinstead and Uckfield MP: Mims Davies (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1979
- Type
- Gatehouse, dovecotes
- Address
- Dovecotes and the Gatehouse, 1 and 2, Dunnings Avenue, East Grinstead
- OS grid reference
- TQ 394 374
- Coordinates
- 51.11937, -0.00924
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Dovecotes and The Gatehouse, built around 1860, serve as a picturesque entrance to the Hurst-en-Cleys Estate for Charles Chevall Tooke Esq. The Gatehouse is two storeys high, featuring a ground floor made of sandstone and a first floor that is tile hung, topped with a stone slab roof. It has one triple-mullioned window with leaded lights and a right-hand doorcase that includes a studded door and an elliptical fanlight. To the left, there is a three-storey stone circular turret, inspired by central European medieval castles, which has a conical tiled roof and houses a dovecote on the upper storey. The turret features four gabled projections with dove holes and several additional holes lower down, along with pseudo-machicolations and slit windows on the first floor. The Dovecotes, numbered 1 and 2, are also two storeys tall, constructed from sandstone with a tiled roof and a large brick chimney stack. They include two mullioned windows and a penticed extension on the right side, along with a doorcase that has a cambered head.
Local climate
Dovecotes and the Gatehouse 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 greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% 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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