Pigeoncote Approximately 100 Metres North of Hovingham Hall is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1987. Pigeoncote.
Pigeoncote Approximately 100 Metres North of Hovingham Hall
- WRENN ID
- blind-quoin-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Thirsk and Malton MP: Kevin Hollinrake (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 June 1987
- Type
- Pigeoncote
- OS grid reference
- SE 665 757
- Coordinates
- 54.17333, -0.9814
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a 17th-century pigeoncote, now converted into a summer house, located approximately 100 metres north of Hovingham Hall. It is constructed from limestone rubble that is brought to course and features a Welsh slate roof. The building has a tripartite fixed window beneath an elliptical arch and a pyramidal roof. There is access for birds through a rectangular lantern that is topped with a weather-vane. The pigeoncote was noted in a work by Sir Marcus Worsley regarding Hovingham Hall in York, published in 1984.
Local climate
Pigeoncote Approximately 100 Metres North of Hovingham Hall receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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