Dovecote at Home Farm is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 August 1984. Dovecote.
Dovecote at Home Farm
- WRENN ID
- cold-footing-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 August 1984
- Type
- Dovecote
- Address
- Dovecote at Home Farm, Town Street, Newton
- OS grid reference
- TL 435 493
- Coordinates
- 52.12394, 0.09556
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The dovecote at Home Farm is an 18th-century structure built from clay bat, dressed clunch, flint, and red brick. It features a plain tiled roof with an original landing stage and has a round shape. Inside, many of the nesting boxes remain intact. Approximately 500 pigeons were housed here until around 1930.
Local climate
Dovecote at Home Farm 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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