Dovecote Farmhouse and Attached Granary is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1987. Farmhouse.
Dovecote Farmhouse and Attached Granary
- WRENN ID
- idle-postern-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 December 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Dovecote Farmhouse and Attached Granary, Upper Heyford
- OS grid reference
- SP 663 595
- Coordinates
- 52.23032, -1.03069
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dovecote Farmhouse and the attached granary is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century, with alterations made in the mid-18th century and late 19th century. It is constructed of coursed squared ironstone and features a slate roof with brick end stacks. The building is designed in an L-shape, with two storeys and an attic, and has a four-window range. The main front faces the garden and includes a door set in a re-entrant angle, which is framed by a moulded Tudor-arched stone surround with cut spandrels.
To the left of the door, the main range has two-light casement windows on both the ground and first floors, each with moulded stone sills and flat-arched heads. Above the door, there is a single-light window with a similar sill and head. A sun fire insurance plaque is located above the middle window on the first floor. The projecting wing features three-light casement windows on both floors, replacing pairs of windows that were similar to those in the main range. There is also a single-light window on the ground floor to the right, which has a stone sill and flat-arched head. The gable end of this wing includes a pair of one-light attic windows, each with moulded stone surrounds and hood moulds.
The exterior displays chamfered plinths, quoins, and stone-coped gables with kneelers. The attached granary, located to the right of the projecting wing, is built from coursed limestone rubble and has a corrugated asbestos roof. It features a stone-coped gable with kneelers at the far right end and is accessed by nine stone steps leading to a plank loft door, which has a chamfered wood surround and wood lintel. Inside the farmhouse, there are diamond stop-chamfered spine beams and an open fireplace with a diamond-stop-chamfered cambered bressumer, along with another open fireplace that has chamfered stone jambs.
Local climate
Dovecote Farmhouse and Attached Granary 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 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% 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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