Gatehouse with First Floor Dovecot and Attached Open Fronted Store, The Tithe Barn, Lower Dowdeswell is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 February 1986. A C16 Gatehouse. 2 related planning applications.
Gatehouse with First Floor Dovecot and Attached Open Fronted Store, The Tithe Barn, Lower Dowdeswell
- WRENN ID
- third-footing-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 February 1986
- Type
- Gatehouse
- Address
- Gatehouse with First Floor Dovecot and Attached Open Fronted Store, The Tithe Barn, Lower Dowdeswell, GL54 4LX
- OS grid reference
- SP 000 199
- Coordinates
- 51.87803, -2.0007
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a 16th-century detached gatehouse with a first-floor dovecot and an attached open-fronted store, known as The Tithe Barn, located in Lower Dowdeswell. The gatehouse is constructed of coursed squared and dressed limestone, with sections of close-studded timber framing and weather-boarding. It has a compact rectangular plan with a side wall open to the first floor, providing access to a yard, and an open-fronted store projecting forwards to the left. The first-floor dovecot has a close-studded side wall featuring a two-light wood-mullioned window that is now blocked, while the opposite wall is weather-boarded. Access to the dovecot is via a plank door in the right gable end, using a 20th-century wooden staircase. The open-fronted store to the left has a hipped roof and comprises three bays. The gatehouse features a slightly stepped gable-end coping with roll-cross saddles, as does a central square lantern.
Local climate
Gatehouse with First Floor Dovecot and Attached Open Fronted Store, The Tithe Barn, Lower Dowdeswell receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2021
- 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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