Dovecote at Manor Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1986. Dovecote.
Dovecote at Manor Farm
- WRENN ID
- knotted-sill-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Chippenham MP: Sarah Gibson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1986
- Type
- Dovecote
- Address
- Dovecote at Manor Farm, the Street, Lydiard Millicent
- OS grid reference
- SU 092 861
- Coordinates
- 51.57386, -1.8677
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The dovecote at Manor Farm is an 18th-century structure made of brick, featuring red brick quoins and a stone slate roof. It stands three storeys tall and has gables with timber windows on each side. There is a blocked door, and the wall continues as a boundary to the paddock. Inside, there are many nest holes.
Local climate
Dovecote at Manor Farm receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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