Dovecote and Pigsties with Screen Wall Attached to East of Resugga Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1988. Dovecote, pigsty.
Dovecote and Pigsties with Screen Wall Attached to East of Resugga Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- dark-chancel-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Austell and Newquay MP: Noah Law (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1988
- Type
- Dovecote, pigsty
- OS grid reference
- SW 940 526
- Coordinates
- 50.33742, -4.89588
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The dovecote and pigsties with a screen wall are located to the east of Resugga Farmhouse and date from the late 18th century. They are constructed of squared granite rubble and feature a slurried scantle slate roof with ridge tiles and gable ends.
The dovecote is the central block, with stabling on the ground floor and a pigeon loft above. On either side, there are lower single-storey pigsties that create a symmetrical ornamental front. Attached to the left side is a screen wall that runs in an L-plan, connecting the dovecote and pigsties to the farmhouse and screening the farmyard at the rear from the garden in front of the farmhouse.
The dovecote itself is two-storey and slightly projects from the range on either side. It has a central round-arched doorway with a dressed stone arch and a plank door featuring a weatherboarded tymparium. Above the doorway, there are four rows of square pigeon holes with slate perches, arranged in diminishing rows within the gable. The pigsties on each side have blind fronts, while at the rear, the dovecote features an external stone stair leading to a loft door with a granite lintel. Each pigsty has three doorways with plank doors and strap hinges.
The interior of the dovecote includes a cobbled floor with a drain and a stone manger along the rear wall. The attached screen wall is approximately 2 meters high and features a short range with granite coping.
Local climate
Dovecote and Pigsties with Screen Wall Attached to East of Resugga Farmhouse receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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