Dovecote at King's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 August 1979. Dovecote. 3 related planning applications.
Dovecote at King's Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- heavy-facade-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 August 1979
- Type
- Dovecote
- Address
- Dovecote at King's Farmhouse, High Street, Little Shelford, CB22 5ES
- OS grid reference
- TL 453 512
- Coordinates
- 52.14074, 0.12227
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an 18th-century dovecote, now used as a garage, located at King's Farmhouse in Little Shelford. The dovecote is timber-framed and has been rendered with plaster. It has a tiled roof that is half-hipped with small gables, and features a single gabled dormer on the front elevation.
Local climate
Dovecote at King's Farmhouse 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 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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