Former Dovecote S of Leeswood Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Flintshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 3 April 1987. Dovecote.

Former Dovecote S of Leeswood Hall

WRENN ID
deep-doorway-fern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Flintshire
Constituency
Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
3 April 1987
Type
Dovecote
Address
Former Dovecote S of Leeswood Hall, Leeswood and Pontblyddyn
OS grid reference
SJ 252 611
Coordinates
53.14253, -3.11871
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The former dovecote south of Leeswood Hall dates from around 1720 and is a two-storey structure made of red brick. It features an ashlar string course and banded stone pilasters at the corners, along with a moulded stone plinth. The building has remnants of a pyramidal slate roof. It includes gauged brick lintels above blind panels, which have keyblocks, and a doorway with an architrave that also has a keyblock. The dovecote has a polygonal plan and retains brick nesting boxes and stone stairs inside.

Local climate

Former Dovecote S of Leeswood Hall receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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