The Dovecot at Coombe Place is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. Dovecot.
The Dovecot at Coombe Place
- WRENN ID
- twisted-belfry-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- East Grinstead and Uckfield MP: Mims Davies (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Dovecot
- Address
- The Dovecot at Coombe Place, Hamsey, Lewes
- OS grid reference
- TQ 391 123
- Coordinates
- 50.89408, -0.02243
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Dovecot at Coombe Place is likely an early 19th-century structure that serves as a landmark. It has an octagonal shape and is faced with flints, featuring dressings and quoins made of red brick and grey headers. The building has a coved eaves cornice and a slate roof topped with an octagonal wooden cupola that forms the entrance for the birds. Each side of the dovecot has a blocked imitation pointed window and a similar quatrefoil above it. There is also a pointed doorway, and the dovecot retains its nesting boxes.
Local climate
The Dovecot at Coombe Place receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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