Dovecote 100m South East of St Martins Church is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 November 1950. A C17 or C18 Dovecote.

Dovecote 100m South East of St Martins Church

WRENN ID
stark-corner-smoke
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Suffolk
Constituency
West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 November 1950
Type
Dovecote
Address
Dovecote 100m South East of St Martins Church, Church Street, Exning
OS grid reference
TL 622 653
Coordinates
52.26283, 0.37544
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a dovecote located 100 meters southeast of St. Martin's Church, dating from the 17th or 18th century. It has a square plan and is constructed from clunch rubble with dressed quoins and dentil eaves made of red brick. The roof is a pyramid shape, covered with plain tiles and features weather-boarded gablets. There is a boarded entrance door.

Local climate

Dovecote 100m South East of St Martins Church sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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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