Dovecote at Hardwick Farm is a Grade II* listed building in the Plymouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 March 1960. A Medieval Dovecote.
Dovecote at Hardwick Farm
- WRENN ID
- spare-chalk-auburn
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Plymouth
- Constituency
- South West Devon MP: Rebecca Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 March 1960
- Type
- Dovecote
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Dovecote at Hardwick Farm, Drunken Bridge Hill, City of Plymouth
- OS grid reference
- SX 534 552
- Coordinates
- 50.37889, -4.06308
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The dovecote at Hardwick Farm is a Grade II* listed structure, likely dating from the late medieval period or the 16th century. It features local stone rubble walls and a distinctive corbelled domed roof with an opening at the top. The building has a round plan and is tall, with an altered doorway and one window opening that has iron bars, along with putlog holes. Inside, the dovecote is lined with nesting holes. This structure, along with a few others in the south-west peninsula and South Wales, exemplifies ancient building traditions found in other Atlantic Seaboard regions, such as Brittany and Southern Ireland.
Local climate
Dovecote at Hardwick Farm sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% 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 0.3°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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- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1999
- No related consent applications matched
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