Dovecote 30 Metres East of Chidden Farm Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. A Georgian Dovecote.
Dovecote 30 Metres East of Chidden Farm Cottage
- WRENN ID
- eternal-zinc-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Winchester MP: Dr Danny Chambers (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Dovecote
- Period
- Georgian
- OS grid reference
- SU 657 176
- Coordinates
- 50.95497, -1.06484
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a dovecote, now used as a store, located 30 metres east of Chidden Farm Cottage. It was constructed around 1800 and features a tall square block design with brick walls laid in Flemish and Flemish Garden Wall bonds, incorporating blue headers and a plinth. The roof is pyramid-shaped and topped with a pyramid cap. On the north-west wall, there is a narrow vertical space that contains one door above another, with boarding in between. Additionally, there is a porch on the south-west side.
Local climate
Dovecote 30 Metres East of Chidden Farm Cottage receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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