Dovecote at Manor Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1986. Dovecote.
Dovecote at Manor Farm
- WRENN ID
- fallow-bracket-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1986
- Type
- Dovecote
- Address
- Dovecote at Manor Farm, Sandhills Road, Dinton
- OS grid reference
- SU 020 318
- Coordinates
- 51.08582, -1.97257
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The dovecote at Manor Farm is a 17th-century structure that was altered in the 19th century. It is made of rubble stone and has a Welsh slate roof. This two-storey rectangular dovecote is built on a bank and features entrances at both ground and first floor levels. The southwest front has a central planked door, while the southeast gable includes an open two-light window and a weatherboarded gable. The northwest gable has a planked door leading to the upper level. Inside, the dovecote is lined with stone pigeon boxes and has a 19th-century three-bay queen post roof.
Local climate
Dovecote at Manor Farm receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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