Dove Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 November 1983. A C17 Dovecote, residential.
Dove Cottage
- WRENN ID
- drifting-cobalt-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 November 1983
- Type
- Dovecote, residential
- Address
- Dove Cottage, Cranes Lane, Kingston
- OS grid reference
- TL 344 549
- Coordinates
- 52.1763, -0.03481
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dove Cottage is a former dovecote that has been converted into a cottage, dating from the 17th to 18th century. The building is timber framed and has a roughcast render finish. It features a hipped roof that is tiled and includes gablets for flight holes, although it is now plaster rendered. The cottage is two storeys high. On the southeast side, there is a 19th-century doorway with a boarded door, accompanied by a small pane hung sash window to the right.
Local climate
Dove Cottage 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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