Dovecote to Mock Beggar Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 November 1984. Dovecote, water tower.
Dovecote to Mock Beggar Hall
- WRENN ID
- waiting-copper-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 November 1984
- Type
- Dovecote, water tower
- Address
- Dovecote to Mock Beggar Hall, Common Road, East Tuddenham
- OS grid reference
- TG 080 104
- Coordinates
- 52.65198, 1.07377
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The dovecote to Mock Beggar Hall, dating from the late 17th century, has been repurposed as a water tower. It features English bond brickwork and a flat corrugated iron roof, with a square plan. There are three doorways on the ground floor and two rectangular windows that have plain pediments, along with remnants of stucco ashlaring. The exterior is adorned with inverted triangle dentil cornices. Inside, there are still some nesting boxes present.
Local climate
Dovecote to Mock Beggar Hall sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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