Dovecote to North East of Malton Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 October 1982. Dovecote.
Dovecote to North East of Malton Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- final-alcove-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 October 1982
- Type
- Dovecote
- Address
- Dovecote to North East of Malton Farmhouse, Malton Lane, Orwell
- OS grid reference
- TL 373 483
- Coordinates
- 52.11629, 0.00476
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a dovecote located to the northeast of Malton Farmhouse, dating from the 17th to 18th century. It is timber framed and weatherboarded, standing on a red brick plinth. The roof is tiled and features gablets for flight holes and an original landing stage. The structure has two storeys, with a cart shed on the ground floor and the pigeon house above. Although the current cart doors are modern, the flooring of the pigeon house is original and made of substantial scantling. A similar floored pigeon house can be found at Rectory Farm in Coton.
Local climate
Dovecote to North East of Malton 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 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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