Dovecote to Rear of Whitehall is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 May 1969. Dovecote. 1 related planning application.
Dovecote to Rear of Whitehall
- WRENN ID
- standing-bonework-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- Shrewsbury MP: Julia Buckley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 May 1969
- Type
- Dovecote
- Address
- Dovecote to Rear of Whitehall, Monkmoor Road, Shrewsbury, SY2 5AL
- OS grid reference
- SJ 502 124
- Coordinates
- 52.7075, -2.73738
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The dovecote located to the rear of Whitehall was built around 1580. It is constructed from red and blue brick and features a plain tiled roof adorned with scalloped bands. At the top, there is a timbered cupola with leaded lights and an ogee lead cap topped with a weather vane. The structure is octagonal in shape and has a single low entrance with a 4-centred stone lintel. Inside, the walls are lined with nesting holes and there is a central wooden potence. The floor is cobbled. This dovecote was built around the same time as the main building of Whitehall, which was constructed by Richard Prince between 1578 and 1582.
Local climate
Dovecote to Rear of Whitehall receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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