Dovecot Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1985. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Dovecot Cottage
- WRENN ID
- peeling-cobble-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Dovecot Cottage, Church Lane, Kingston, CB23 2NG
- OS grid reference
- TL 345 553
- Coordinates
- 52.17983, -0.03407
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dovecot Cottage is a building that dates back to the 18th century. It features a timber frame that is plaster rendered, with a tiled hipped roof that has flight holes in the gablets, which are also plaster rendered. There is a 19th-century gault brick chimney stack. The cottage has two storeys and an attic, with 19th-century flush frame horizontal sliding sash windows. The original doorway was located on the north side. At ground level, there are single-storey lean-to extensions. Inside, there is a 19th-century staircase, and in the attic, the trap door from the landing stage to the dovecote remains intact.
Local climate
Dovecot 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2006
- 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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