Dovecote South West of Wreay Hall Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1986. Dovecote.
Dovecote South West of Wreay Hall Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- shifting-outpost-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1986
- Type
- Dovecote
- Address
- Dovecote South West of Wreay Hall Farmhouse, Hesket
- OS grid reference
- NY 442 484
- Coordinates
- 54.82792, -2.86999
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an early 18th-century dovecote located south-west of Wreay Hall Farmhouse. It features dressed calciferous sandstone walls and eaves modillions beneath a pyramidal roof made of graduated greenslate, which has lead ridges and an open wooden lantern. The dovecote is a single-storey octagonal structure with a side doorway. Inside, there are remnants of its original shelves. For further details, refer to the Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, old series, volume ix, pages 423-424.
Local climate
Dovecote South West of Wreay Hall Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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