Dovecote at Manor Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1960. Dovecote. 2 related planning applications.
Dovecote at Manor Farm
- WRENN ID
- odd-kitchen-moth
- 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 at Manor Farm, Sutton Benger, SN15 5LD
- OS grid reference
- ST 928 781
- Coordinates
- 51.50265, -2.1041
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The dovecote at Manor Farm is an early 18th-century structure made of rubble stone and roughcast, featuring a hipped stone slate roof with a 20th-century lantern. It is small in scale and has ashlar flush quoins and a flush moulded surround around the doorway on the north side, which is fitted with an oak plank door. On the east side, there is a recessed cyma-moulded single light. The upper part of the dovecote is lined with nesting boxes, and there is a privy located underneath.
Local climate
Dovecote at Manor Farm receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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