Pigeoncote at Dovecote Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Boston local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 August 1987. Pigeoncote.
Pigeoncote at Dovecote Farm
- WRENN ID
- late-baluster-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Boston
- Constituency
- Boston and Skegness MP: Richard Tice (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 August 1987
- Type
- Pigeoncote
- Address
- Pigeoncote at Dovecote Farm, Holland Fen with Brothertoft
- OS grid reference
- TF 294 447
- Coordinates
- 52.9849, -0.07282
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The pigeoncote at Dovecote Farm is an early 19th-century structure built of painted brickwork. It features a conical slate roof topped by a square wooden turret, which has eight small arched flight holes on each side and a pyramidal slate roof. The building has a circular plan and is two storeys high, with brick dogtoothed eaves. There is a single planked opening on the ground floor, while the upper floors have blocked openings. Inside, the pigeoncote retains brick boxes and perches.
Local climate
Pigeoncote at Dovecote Farm sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% 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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