Dovecote to the South of Polstead Ponds Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1958. Dovecote.
Dovecote to the South of Polstead Ponds Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- lunar-hall-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1958
- Type
- Dovecote
- OS grid reference
- TL 990 382
- Coordinates
- 52.00675, 0.8984
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The dovecote located to the south of Polstead Ponds Farmhouse is an 18th-century structure made of red brick and features a square shape. It has a tiled pyramid roof topped with a weatherboarded turret that provides access for the birds, which is covered with a slate roof and includes a weather vane.
Local climate
Dovecote to the South of Polstead Ponds Farmhouse 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 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings