Dovecote South of Hutton John is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 December 1967. Dovecote.
Dovecote South of Hutton John
- WRENN ID
- lunar-keep-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 December 1967
- Type
- Dovecote
- Address
- Dovecote South of Hutton John, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- NY 439 269
- Coordinates
- 54.63439, -2.86942
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The dovecote south of Hutton John is a building from the mid or late 17th century that has been converted into a smithy, with some alterations made in the late 19th century. It features mixed sandstone rubble walls and a graduated greenslate roof with coped gables and kneelers. The structure is square in shape and has plank doors set in a plain 19th-century opening, along with a small fixed-casement window to the right. A triangular gable opening, which is now blocked, still has its stone shelves. The return walls have small casement windows with stone surrounds and some slit vents. Inside, the dovecote originally had boulins, but these have been removed from one wall to accommodate a hearth and blacksmith's bellows, which remain in place. No boulins are left in the loft. The building is listed for its group value with Hutton John.
Local climate
Dovecote South of Hutton John sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,320 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 63 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 38 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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