Pimp Hall Dovecote is a Grade II listed building in the Waltham Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1954. A C17 Dovecote.
Pimp Hall Dovecote
- WRENN ID
- ghost-lantern-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Waltham Forest
- Constituency
- Chingford and Woodford Green MP: Sir Iain Duncan Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 June 1954
- Type
- Dovecote
- Address
- Pimp Hall Dovecote, Kings Road E4
- OS grid reference
- TQ 388 938
- Coordinates
- 51.62606, 0.00463
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pimp Hall Dovecote is a 17th-century dovecote located on the south side of Kings Road in Chingford. It features a timber frame resting on a brick base and has a hipped roof covered with plain tiles. The structure has a square plan and is characterized by close studding with diagonal braces and plastered infill panels. The dovecote is topped with a closed, four-sided intersecting gabled louver.
Local climate
Pimp Hall Dovecote sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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