Pigeon-Cote Circa 50 Metres North-West of Brandon House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1988. Pigeon-cote.
Pigeon-Cote Circa 50 Metres North-West of Brandon House Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- odd-obsidian-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor MP: Alan Strickland (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1988
- Type
- Pigeon-cote
- OS grid reference
- NZ 305 350
- Coordinates
- 54.70914, -1.52703
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a pigeon-cote located approximately 50 metres north-west of Brandon House farmhouse, likely built in the mid-18th century. It is constructed of varied stone rubble with brick dressings and ashlar quoins, topped with a pantile roof featuring a stone finial. The structure is two storeys high and has a single square bay.
The north elevation features a soldier-course lintel made of headers above a boarded door in a wooden frame on the left side, and a similar lintel and frame above an empty square opening on the right side. The first floor is blank. The roof is pyramid-shaped with a ball finial resting on a square horizontal slab.
A door has been added to the rear for access to later attached buildings. Inside, the first floor has been removed, but several tiers of nest boxes can still be seen on the walls.
Local climate
Pigeon-Cote Circa 50 Metres North-West of Brandon House Farmhouse receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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