Dovecote Approximately 60 Metres to West of Lea Hall is a Grade II* listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1952. A Elizabethan Dovecote.
Dovecote Approximately 60 Metres to West of Lea Hall
- WRENN ID
- weathered-gutter-martin
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- Shrewsbury MP: Julia Buckley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1952
- Type
- Dovecote
- Period
- Elizabethan
- OS grid reference
- SJ 492 210
- Coordinates
- 52.78455, -2.75428
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The dovecote, located approximately 60 metres to the west of Lea Hall, dates from around 1584. It is constructed of red brick with blue brick diaper work and features a pyramidal stone slate roof. The dovecote has an octagonal plan and is set on a chamfered grey sandstone plinth, which has been restored in red sandstone. It includes a toothed-brick cornice at the raised eaves band and a small wooden glover with round-arched openings topped by a pyramidal lead cap and weathervane. On the east side, there is a small chamfered rectangular window and a small boarded door below, which has a red sandstone lintel. Inside, there are approximately 300 brick resting boxes built into the walls, with continuous brick ledges beneath them. A central wooden potence features braced horizontal spars at both the top and bottom, supporting a ladder at each end. Since Lea Hall is dated to 1584, it is likely that the dovecote was built around the same time.
Local climate
Dovecote Approximately 60 Metres to West of Lea Hall receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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