Pigeonhouse Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1983. Cottage.
Pigeonhouse Cottage
- WRENN ID
- under-turret-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Newbury MP: Mr Lee Dillon (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Pigeonhouse Cottage, Lambourn
- OS grid reference
- SU 348 770
- Coordinates
- 51.49171, -1.49931
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pigeonhouse Cottage is a 17th-century cottage featuring one storey and an attic. It has a timber frame with colourwashed plaster infill and a thatched roof that is half hipped, with chimneys at both ends and on the side. The framing is thin and square. The cottage has irregular casement windows, some of which are modern, and a small dormer that breaks the eaves on the west side.
Local climate
Pigeonhouse Cottage receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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