Sale Old Hall Dovecote is a Grade II listed building in the Trafford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 March 1975. Dovecote.
Sale Old Hall Dovecote
- WRENN ID
- standing-banister-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Trafford
- Constituency
- Wythenshawe and Sale East MP: Mike Kane (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 March 1975
- Type
- Dovecote
- Address
- Sale Old Hall Dovecote, Walkden Gardens, Derbyshire Road, M33 3EL
- OS grid reference
- SJ 793 912
- Coordinates
- 53.41786, -2.31161
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sale Old Hall Dovecote is a dovecote, which was used for pigeons, built around 1880 by Thomas Worthington for Mary Worthington. It is constructed of Flemish bond brick with stone dressings and has a Westmorland slate roof. The dovecote is octagonal and consists of two stages, with the lower stage partially buried due to the construction of the motorway. The lower stage features two doorways with elaborately moulded pointed brick arches and four small lancet openings. The upper stage is corbelled out from the octagonal base to create a circular stage that housed the nesting boxes. It has a moulded eaves cornice and four decorative gabled dormer bird entries with timber decoration. An elaborate vane that once adorned the structure is no longer present, and much of the brickwork is in poor condition. This dovecote is the only remaining building from the historically significant site of Sale Old Hall. In 2003, it was relocated to its current location at Walkden Gardens due to road widening of the M60.
Local climate
Sale Old Hall Dovecote sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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