Dovecote at Dairy Farm is a Grade II* listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1951. A Medieval Dovecote. 9 related planning applications.
Dovecote at Dairy Farm
- WRENN ID
- iron-joist-dust
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Kettering MP: Rosie Wrighting (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1951
- Type
- Dovecote
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Dovecote at Dairy Farm, St Andrew's Lane, Cranford, NN14 4AQ
- OS grid reference
- SP 923 772
- Coordinates
- 52.38596, -0.64507
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dovecote at Dairy Farm is likely of 15th-century origin. Constructed of roughly-coursed limestone rubble with some ironstone, the dovecote is circular in plan and features a conical roof of Collyweston stone slate, topped with an octagonal lead louvre. A board door is set beneath a wooden lintel on the north side, and there are small rectangular openings to the east, and another at a higher level to the north. The interior, which has not been inspected, is believed to contain 16 rows of nesting boxes, accommodating a total of 440 nesting places, along with a potence pole, gallows, and ladder, all of which are complete.
Local climate
Dovecote at Dairy Farm sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 9 applications
- 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
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