Dovecot in Farmyard of Manor Farm by Oldcastle Heath Lane is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 August 1987. A Georgian Dovecot. 1 related planning application.
Dovecot in Farmyard of Manor Farm by Oldcastle Heath Lane
- WRENN ID
- turning-clay-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 August 1987
- Type
- Dovecot
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Dovecot in Farmyard of Manor Farm by Oldcastle Heath Lane, Lower Wych Lane, Malpas, SY14 7NQ
- OS grid reference
- SJ 484 459
- Coordinates
- 53.00801, -2.76923
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The dovecot located in the farmyard of Manor Farm, dating from the late Georgian period, is constructed of brown brickwork in English garden wall bond and features a pyramidal roof covered with graded grey slate. At the top, it is adorned with a wooden louvre vent and a weathervane. The structure has three storeys: the lower storey includes a divided boarded door on the south side; the middle storey features two lozenge-shaped breathers on each side; and the upper storey contains two vertical-sided pentagonal flight-holes above a corbelled landing-platform. Inside, access is provided by a ladder, and there are three rows of eight nesting boxes along each wall of the upper storey.
Local climate
Dovecot in Farmyard of Manor Farm by Oldcastle Heath Lane receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% 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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