Dovecote and Pigsties to South East of Crossrigg Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 April 1984. Dovecote.
Dovecote and Pigsties to South East of Crossrigg Hall
- WRENN ID
- silver-joist-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 April 1984
- Type
- Dovecote
- Address
- Dovecote and Pigsties to South East of Crossrigg Hall, Bolton
- OS grid reference
- NY 606 241
- Coordinates
- 54.6106, -2.61038
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The dovecote and pigsties located to the south-east of Crossrigg Hall were built around 1830. This two-storey dovecote is accompanied by single-storey pigsties, which together form the south and west sides of a courtyard at the rear of the former house. The structure is made of coursed, squared rubble with quoins and features a band between the floors of the dovecote. The pigsties have a hipped roof covered with graduated slate, while the dovecote is topped with a pyramidal graduated slate roof that includes bird openings on the sides of a central turret. This turret is adorned with an ogee lead dome and a weathercock. There are six plank doors, five of which have segmental heads, leading into the courtyard. The south side of the dovecote has two small sash windows set in semicircular-headed architraves. Each face of the dovecote features a small circular opening just below the eaves, decorated with radiating tracery.
Local climate
Dovecote and Pigsties to South East of Crossrigg Hall sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,230 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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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