Pigeon House to North West of Beddington Place is a Grade II* listed building in the Sutton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 January 1954. Dovecote.

Pigeon House to North West of Beddington Place

WRENN ID
steep-span-spindle
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Sutton
Constituency
Carshalton and Wallington MP: Bobby Dean (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 January 1954
Type
Dovecote
Address
Pigeon House to North West of Beddington Place, Church Road
OS grid reference
TQ 295 653
Coordinates
51.37265, -0.14028
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Pigeon House, located to the north-west of Beddington Place, is an early 18th-century large octagonal dovecote made of red brick. It features a band halfway up the structure, a modillioned eaves cornice, and an old tile roof topped with an octagonal open cupola, dome, and ball finial. This dovecote closely resembles another that was built at Carshalton House, which was demolished in 1906. It is likely that both were similar to a dovecote that existed at Kensington Palace and was demolished in the 19th century. The Pigeon House is part of a group that includes the Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin, lychgates, churchyard walls, the orangery wall, and other structures in the vicinity.

Local climate

Pigeon House to North West of Beddington Place sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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