Dovecote to North East of Caxton Pastures Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1985. Dovecote. 1 related planning application.
Dovecote to North East of Caxton Pastures Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- muted-ember-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 May 1985
- Type
- Dovecote
- Address
- Dovecote to North East of Caxton Pastures Farmhouse, Ermine Street, CB23 3PF
- OS grid reference
- TL 291 599
- Coordinates
- 52.22306, -0.11052
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a dovecote located to the north-east of Caxton Pastures Farmhouse, built in the late 18th century and later converted into a small dwelling in the 19th century. It is constructed of red brick and features a plain tile hipped roof with gablets. The building has a square plan and stands two storeys high, with an outshut. There are two side stacks, and the central entrance consists of a boarded door set within a segmental brick arch. The dovecote has two horizontal sliding sash windows on the ground floor and two more on the first floor.
Local climate
Dovecote to North East of Caxton Pastures 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 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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