Pigeon House to North East of Manor Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 1962. Dovecote. 1 related planning application.
Pigeon House to North East of Manor Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- haunted-forge-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1962
- Type
- Dovecote
- Address
- Pigeon House to North East of Manor Farmhouse, Comberton Road, Toft, CB23 2RY
- OS grid reference
- TL 361 562
- Coordinates
- 52.18733, -0.00928
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an 18th-century dovecote located to the north-east of Manor Farmhouse. It is constructed with a timber frame and weatherboarding, resting on a red brick plinth. The roof is hipped with plain tiles and features gablets that allow for flight entry. There is a boarded, halved door facing west. The dovecote has a square plan, and inside, it retains original claybat nesting boxes, as noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments reconstruction.
Local climate
Pigeon House to North East of Manor Farmhouse 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 97% 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 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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