Dovecote at Granhams Farm is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 August 1984. A Early C19 Dovecote, dwelling house. 4 related planning applications.
Dovecote at Granhams Farm
- WRENN ID
- weathered-iron-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 August 1984
- Type
- Dovecote, dwelling house
- Address
- Dovecote at Granhams Farm, Granhams Road, Great Shelford, CB22 5JX
- OS grid reference
- TL 463 531
- Coordinates
- 52.15686, 0.13809
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a former dovecote that has been converted into a dwelling house, dating from the early 19th century. It is timber framed and has a plaster-rendered exterior with a hipped roof covered in plain tiles and featuring gables. The structure is two storeys high. All the doors and windows are from the 20th century. The dovecote is situated on a former moated site.
Local climate
Dovecote at Granhams Farm sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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