Dovecot East South East of Manor House is a Grade II listed building in the Peterborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1982. Dovecot.
Dovecot East South East of Manor House
- WRENN ID
- shifting-pinnacle-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peterborough
- Constituency
- North West Cambridgeshire MP: Sam Carling (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1982
- Type
- Dovecot
- Address
- Dovecot East South East of Manor House, Upton, City of Peterborough
- OS grid reference
- TF 111 004
- Coordinates
- 52.59083, -0.36139
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The dovecot, located east-south-east of the Manor House, is an 18th-century square building featuring a pyramidal roof made of Collyweston stone. The structure has two storeys, with the first-floor loft containing resting holes for the doves. The ground floor includes stables, which have a central stable door flanked by windows on either side. The lantern that once adorned the top of the dovecot is missing.
Local climate
Dovecot East South East of Manor House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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