Courtyard Retaining Wall with Dovecote and Attached Outbuildings Adjoining Ford House to North-East is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1986. Courtyard wall, dovecote, outbuildings.
Courtyard Retaining Wall with Dovecote and Attached Outbuildings Adjoining Ford House to North-East
- WRENN ID
- second-baluster-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- Shrewsbury MP: Julia Buckley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1986
- Type
- Courtyard wall, dovecote, outbuildings
- OS grid reference
- SJ 412 139
- Coordinates
- 52.71966, -2.87069
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a courtyard retaining wall with a dovecote and attached outbuildings located to the north-east of Ford House. It dates from the early 18th century and is constructed of red brick. The wall features a high stepped plinth on the south-east side and has a chamfered red sandstone coping. It measures approximately 26 metres in length and 2 metres in height, with a blocked segmental-headed doorway next to the house.
The probable dovecote is built into the wall about two-thirds of the way along its length. It is made of red brick and has a pyramidal slate roof, standing two storeys tall. The dovecote also has a high stepped plinth on the south-east side and a dentil brick eaves cornice. On the north-west front, there is a first-floor louvred square opening with a segmental relieving arch, and an off-centre segmental-headed boarded door on the ground floor to the left. There is a small low wing that projects to the left, featuring a stone-coped parapeted gable and a segmental-headed boarded loft door at the front.
The right-hand return front of the dovecote includes a segmental-headed boarded loft door and a pair of low segmental-headed ground-floor doorways, along with flanking small square openings. One of these openings to the left has a stone ledge, and there are also a pair of small segmental-headed openings above.
Adjoining the dovecote to the north-east is a lean-to outbuilding with a corrugated iron roof, which has two windows and a door on the front. The interior of the dovecote has not been inspected. Together, the dovecote and retaining wall form one side of a service courtyard located to the north-west of Ford House.
Local climate
Courtyard Retaining Wall with Dovecote and Attached Outbuildings Adjoining Ford House to North-East receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% 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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