Dovecote at Knights Gate is a Grade I listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 June 1952. Dovecote.
Dovecote at Knights Gate
- WRENN ID
- weathered-balcony-solstice
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 June 1952
- Type
- Dovecote
- Address
- Dovecote at Knights Gate, Church Road, Quenington
- OS grid reference
- SP 147 039
- Coordinates
- 51.73374, -1.78778
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The dovecote at Knights Gate is a historic structure, possibly dating back to 1338, associated with the Knights Hospitallers, although some believe it to be from the 17th century. It is a small round building made of rubble stone, featuring a projecting square string course about 0.5 meters below the eaves of its conical stone slate roof, which has a retractable lantern "lid" topped with a renewed stone ball finial. There is a very small low doorway on the west side, with a timber lintel and a recessed plank door, along with a slit vent above and to the south. Inside, the walls are perforated with approximately 600 dove holes, stacked at an angle one above the other, above a rat rail that supports a revolving ladder on a central wooden pin, believed to be the original ladder (or potence). The roof timbers inside have been reinforced with steel straps.
Local climate
Dovecote at Knights Gate 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 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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