Pigeon House at Painswick House is a Grade II* listed building in the Stroud local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 August 1990. Pigeon house.
Pigeon House at Painswick House
- WRENN ID
- tangled-outpost-shade
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Stroud
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 August 1990
- Type
- Pigeon house
- OS grid reference
- SO 863 103
- Coordinates
- 51.79123, -2.19998
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Pigeon House at Painswick House is a mid-18th century structure made of limestone ashlar with a timber top storey and a lead cupola. This impressive classical building features a square rusticated base that transitions to an octagonal upper level, topped with a hexagonal louvred crown and cupola. At ground level, there are deep recessed alcoves with segmental heads on each of the four cardinal faces, supported by deep voussoirs beneath a plain string course. Above these alcoves, the building has eight tall arched openings with rusticated quoins and voussoirs, and louvred ventilators above with paired openings and arches. The ground floor has a very low pitched cross vault. The windows on the first floor are generally blocked. The recess on the ground floor facing the house appears to have once had a portico or canopy, and there is a narrow door providing access to a stair. The interior is not accessible.
Local climate
Pigeon House at Painswick House receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% 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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