Dovecote to Rear of Glebe House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1960. Dovecote. 1 related planning application.
Dovecote to Rear of Glebe House
- WRENN ID
- stranded-iron-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1960
- Type
- Dovecote
- Address
- Dovecote to Rear of Glebe House, the Street, Grittleton, SN14 6AP
- OS grid reference
- ST 859 800
- Coordinates
- 51.51962, -2.20393
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The dovecote located to the rear of Glebe House dates from the 17th century. It is constructed of rubble stone with ashlar quoins and features a stone slate gabled roof topped with a short pyramid-capped stone-slated lantern. The dovecote is raised on a basement and has a depressed-arched entry on the south side. On the east side, there are external stairs leading up to a door set in an ashlar lean-to porch. The south side includes a casement window and a small apex opening in the gable.
Local climate
Dovecote to Rear of Glebe House receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2012
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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