Dovecote remains at Pipe Ridware Hall and attached wall to the north is a Grade II listed building in the Lichfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 January 1988. Dovecote. 1 related planning application.
Dovecote remains at Pipe Ridware Hall and attached wall to the north
- WRENN ID
- knotted-mortar-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lichfield
- Constituency
- Lichfield MP: Dave Robertson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 January 1988
- Type
- Dovecote
- Address
- Dovecote remains at Pipe Ridware Hall and attached wall to the north, Mavesyn Ridware
- OS grid reference
- SK 096 174
- Coordinates
- 52.75499, -1.85911
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The remains of a dovecote and an attached wall are located at Pipe Ridware Hall. This structure dates from the 16th or 17th century and is built of red brick with sandstone ashlar dressings, topped with a flat corrugated iron roof. The dovecote has a hexagonal plan, featuring a coped plinth, a moulded cornice, and upper windows with rectangular chamfered surrounds. The north side has a coped brick wall that once formed part of a walled garden surrounding the now-demolished timber-framed mansion of Pipe Ridware Hall.
Inside, the walls of the dovecote are lined with individual nesting boxes. The structure is currently in a derelict state, with two sides demolished and the original pitched roof missing.
A late 18th-century drawing of the site, created shortly before the house's demolition, is found in Stebbing Shaw's "The History and Antiquities of Staffordshire," volume 1, published in 1798.
Local climate
Dovecote remains at Pipe Ridware Hall and attached wall to the north receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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