Dovecote 15 Metres North West of Athelhampton Hall is a Grade II* listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1956. House.

Dovecote 15 Metres North West of Athelhampton Hall

WRENN ID
lunar-roof-rye
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 January 1956
Type
House
OS grid reference
SY 770 942
Coordinates
50.74773, -2.32715
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The building is a free-standing circular dovecote located 15 metres northwest of Athelhampton Hall, dating from the early 16th century. The structure is made of roughly coursed rubble stone, with some brick repairs, and features a coved stone eaves-cornice. Symmetrically arranged around the circumference are four ashlar buttresses, each with two stages. The dovecote has a clay tiled conical roof topped with an octagonal cedar-wood lantern, which was replaced in the 20th century. Access to the dovecote is from the east through a low ashlar doorway that has a chamfered four-centred head. Inside, the wall face contains fewer than 600 pigeon-holes that were once reachable by a wooden ladder on a cantilevered frame, which pivots on a central post.

Local climate

Dovecote 15 Metres North West of Athelhampton Hall receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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