Dovecote at Withington Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 April 1967. Dovecote.
Dovecote at Withington Hall
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-cinder-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Macclesfield MP: Tim Roca (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 April 1967
- Type
- Dovecote
- Address
- Dovecote at Withington Hall, Holmes Chapel Road, Lower Withington
- OS grid reference
- SJ 811 722
- Coordinates
- 53.24732, -2.28401
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The dovecote at Withington Hall is a mid-18th century structure built in red English garden wall bond with stone dressings and a slate roof. It features a lead and timber lantern and is designed as an octagonal single storey building. The entrance front has a stone plinth with a central doorway framed by rusticated stone quoins and a triple keystone, the central one being dropped. Above the doorway is a circular light surrounded by four keystones. The rear of the dovecote has a smaller circular window with a plain stone surround. A moulded stone cornice runs around the building at the eaves level. At the top, there is an octagonal wooden lantern topped with a lead dome and ball, which includes a 20th-century weather vane.
Local climate
Dovecote at Withington Hall sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2004
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