Dovecote to North of Holcombe House is a Grade II listed building in the Stroud local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 August 1990. Dovecote.
Dovecote to North of Holcombe House
- WRENN ID
- pale-spindle-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stroud
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 August 1990
- Type
- Dovecote
- Address
- Dovecote to North of Holcombe House, Painswick
- OS grid reference
- SO 857 115
- Coordinates
- 51.8027, -2.20743
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The dovecote to the north of Holcombe House is a 17th-century structure made of squared and coursed limestone, topped with a stone slate roof. It has a rectangular shape and features a small ridge turret with a pyramidal roof, along with two rows of openings for pigeons. On the right gable, there is a 2-light casement window set beneath a small stone oeils-de-boeuf, which is supported by a concrete lintel.
Local climate
Dovecote to North of Holcombe House 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 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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