Dovecote with Remains of Adjoining Lambing Pen Approximately 50m North-East of Frocester Court is a Grade II listed building in the Stroud local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 March 1988. Dovecote, lambing pen.
Dovecote with Remains of Adjoining Lambing Pen Approximately 50m North-East of Frocester Court
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-brass-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stroud
- Constituency
- Stroud MP: Dr Simon Opher (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1988
- Type
- Dovecote, lambing pen
- OS grid reference
- SO 787 029
- Coordinates
- 51.72505, -2.30879
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The structure is a dovecote with remains of an adjoining lambing pen, located approximately 50 meters northeast of Frocester Court. The dovecote is partly from the 13th century and has undergone many later restorations. It is built of random rubble limestone and features a stone slate roof. The lambing pen dates from the 17th century, with parts completely rebuilt in the 19th century, and much of the shelter was demolished in the 20th century. It consists of random and coursed rubble limestone, with one wall made of red brick, and has solid thatch roofs covered with corrugated iron.
The lambing pen is roughly rectangular and was originally surrounded by shelters on all four sides, with a two-chamber dovecote attached at the west corner. There is a near-center doorway on the northwest side of the dovecote, with a centrally placed slit vent to the right. The southeast side has a half gable with two slits to the left. The southwest end, originally timber framed, was rebuilt in stone and clad with corrugated material in the 20th century. The lambing pen retains two ranges of shelters with solid thatch roofs, supported by a line of rough posts. Some masonry has been rebuilt, and the southeast range was entirely reconstructed in the 19th century, featuring a central gabled porch.
Inside the dovecote, there are a large number of pigeon holes in the original walling. The lambing pen is included in the listing despite being incomplete, due to the rarity of this type of farm building, as it is the only example in Gloucestershire. The dovecote has been recorded since 1515, and its masonry is comparable to that of a tithe barn.
Local climate
Dovecote with Remains of Adjoining Lambing Pen Approximately 50m North-East of Frocester Court 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 greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings