Ornamental Pigeon Loft About 80 Metres East of Cascade Building is a Grade II listed building in the South Gloucestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 August 1985. Pigeon loft, folly.
Ornamental Pigeon Loft About 80 Metres East of Cascade Building
- WRENN ID
- vast-cobalt-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Gloucestershire
- Constituency
- Thornbury and Yate MP: Claire Young (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 August 1985
- Type
- Pigeon loft, folly
- OS grid reference
- ST 753 799
- Coordinates
- 51.51779, -2.35605
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The ornamental pigeon loft, located about 80 metres east of the Cascade Building, is an early 19th-century structure that may have originally served as an ice house. Constructed from limestone ashlar and rubble with stone dressings on the north and west sides, it showcases a picturesque Gothic style.
The north elevation features a tower with a central pointed arched window, which has an ogee multifoil inner head and a moulded surround. Above this, there is a hollow-chamfered hood mould with stops. The weathered plinth includes a square-headed opening in a chamfered surround, and the structure is accented with ashlar long and short quoins, a cornice, and an embattled parapet that extends around the side elevations.
On the left side, there is a pointed arched opening that has been blocked in brick, topped with a ball at the apex of the arch. The right side includes a small pigeon entry and perch within a moulded stone surround, leading to a loggia on the plinth. This loggia features a large pointed segmental-headed arch opening to a cellar recess, which has a keystone and displays the arms of the Codrington family set on a shield above it. Flanking the shield are pierced balustrades with moulded balusters and pointed arches between each. The corner die on the right side has a panel with three blank inverted shields.
Inside the loggia, there are stone benches, and at the southeast corner, a plain pier with raised panels on the sides. The rear of the tower has a pointed arched door, with a cornice that returns from the front and a plain parapet. The interior includes pigeon holes on either side of the front window and a small stone fireplace to the left, featuring a trefoil head and pointed arch with a stone mantel above. This loft is an important landscape feature of Dodington Park, situated on a small hill overlooking the lake.
Local climate
Ornamental Pigeon Loft About 80 Metres East of Cascade Building receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% 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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