Dovecote at Rushton Hall Farm is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1951. Dovecote.
Dovecote at Rushton Hall Farm
- WRENN ID
- other-footing-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Kettering MP: Rosie Wrighting (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1951
- Type
- Dovecote
- Address
- Dovecote at Rushton Hall Farm, Desborough Road
- OS grid reference
- SP 837 828
- Coordinates
- 52.43721, -0.76954
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The dovecote at Rushton Hall Farm is a Grade II listed structure, likely dating from the 16th century. It is built from squared coursed limestone and ironstone, topped with a Collyweston stone slate roof featuring coped gables with curved tops. The dovecote has a central square louvre with a pyramid roof and a ball finial, along with a string course and loop lights in the gable ends. The west end features a board door on strap hinges with a Tudor-arched head. There is a square stone with a cornice on the south side, although any inscription on it is now illegible. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Dovecote at Rushton Hall Farm 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 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% 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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