Dovecote at Bignor Park Farm is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 May 1984. Dovecote.
Dovecote at Bignor Park Farm
- WRENN ID
- stony-pewter-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Arundel and South Downs MP: Andrew Griffith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 May 1984
- Type
- Dovecote
- Address
- Dovecote at Bignor Park Farm, Chichester
- OS grid reference
- SU 989 156
- Coordinates
- 50.93168, -0.594
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The dovecote at Bignor Park Farm dates from 1860 or earlier and is designed in an octagonal shape. It features coursed stone walls with red brick quoins or dressings, along with some grey headers that are used in a series of stone-blocked openings. The roof is slate and topped with a small octagonal wooden cupola that serves as the birds' entrance. The entrance is through a four-panelled door, and the interior includes nesting boxes.
Local climate
Dovecote at Bignor Park Farm receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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