Dovecote 50 Metres South of Balsam Fields is a Grade II listed building in the King0s Lynn and West Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1987. Dovecote.
Dovecote 50 Metres South of Balsam Fields
- WRENN ID
- white-oriel-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- King0s Lynn and West Norfolk
- Constituency
- North West Norfolk MP: James Wild (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1987
- Type
- Dovecote
- OS grid reference
- TF 552 187
- Coordinates
- 52.74446, 0.29779
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a dovecote located 50 meters south of Balsam Fields in Terrington St. Clement, dating from the late 18th century. It is constructed of brick and features a plain tile roof with a circular plan. Inside, there is an inserted floor and the interior retains 193 nesting boxes. The south side has a plain door, and there is one window on both the west and east sides beneath the eaves. The timber eaves cornice is positioned below the faceted conical roof. The plain tiles were renewed in the 20th century.
Local climate
Dovecote 50 Metres South of Balsam Fields sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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