Former Pigeon House is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 1962. Pigeon-house.
Former Pigeon House
- WRENN ID
- leaning-pier-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1962
- Type
- Pigeon-house
- Address
- Former Pigeon House, 7, South Street, Comberton
- OS grid reference
- TL 381 561
- Coordinates
- 52.1864, 0.01999
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former pigeon house, located at 8 Barton Road and No 2 South Street, dates from the 17th to 18th century. It is now a dwelling and features a timber-frame structure that is plaster rendered, with one wall covered in 19th-century clay bat and another wall clad in 19th to 20th-century weatherboarding. The building has a square plan and a pyramidal tiled roof with gablets. It stands two storeys tall, with a doorway and a hung sash window on the east side, and a large window on the ground floor of the south side.
Local climate
Former Pigeon House 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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