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.

Dovecote at Manor Farm

WRENN ID
low-slate-lichen
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, Seagry
OS grid reference
ST 948 804
Coordinates
51.52334, -2.0763
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The dovecote at Manor Farm is a late 17th-century structure built from rubble stone, topped with a stone slate roof and featuring a small pyramid-roofed lantern on the ridge. It has a rectangular plan and flush quoins. There are outside stairs leading to an upper door on the north side. The west end includes a lower range with two oval lights in the west wall and a door on the north side.

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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