The Old Dovecote in South East Corner of Grounds to Keinton Mandeville County Primary School is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. Dovecote.
The Old Dovecote in South East Corner of Grounds to Keinton Mandeville County Primary School
- WRENN ID
- floating-spandrel-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Dovecote
- Address
- The Old Dovecote in South East Corner of Grounds to Keinton Mandeville County Primary School, Chistles Lane
- OS grid reference
- ST 548 304
- Coordinates
- 51.07194, -2.64516
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Dovecote is located in the southeast corner of the grounds of Keinton Mandeville County Primary School. It is possibly an 18th-century structure with a 20th-century roof. The dovecote is built from locally sourced lias stone that is roughly cut and squared, and it features a clay pantiled lean-to roof with a rectangular plan. There are plain doorways on the north, east, and west faces. The west gable has pierced stone slabs with stone slate shelves for birds, arranged in layers with 2, 4, and 6 holes. Inside, there is space for 21 nests on the north wall, 1 on the west wall, and 6 on the east wall, all created with heavy rough lias slab shelves. The floor is made of Keinton stone flags. This building is unusual for its type, as the nest holes are larger than typical, and it is isolated, not clearly connected to any older property. It is also possible that this structure served as a bee house.
Local climate
The Old Dovecote in South East Corner of Grounds to Keinton Mandeville County Primary School receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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