Dovecote at Gate Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1955. Dovecote.
Dovecote at Gate Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lone-nave-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 June 1955
- Type
- Dovecote
- Address
- Dovecote at Gate Cottage, Princes Risborough
- OS grid reference
- SP 794 029
- Coordinates
- 51.71985, -0.8509
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The dovecote at Gate Cottage, dating from the 18th to early 19th century, has undergone significant renovations in the 20th century. It serves as both a dovecote and a garage. The structure features a timber frame with weatherboarding and pyramid tiled roofs. The lower stage has three bays that are open to the front, supported by curved braces to the wall-plate. Rising from the center is a square tower topped with a similar turret. Each side of the turret has nine arched entries designed for doves.
Local climate
Dovecote at Gate Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% 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.
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