Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
1637
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
07/06/1963
Date of Amendment
20/12/1996
Name of Property
Dovecote at Pickhill Old Hall
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Sesswick
Town
Locality
Pickhill
Easting
338920
Northing
346925
Street Side
Location
Situated to the south-east of Pickhill Old Hall, diagonally opposite its main front, on the edge of steeply sloping ground.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Part of Pickhill Old Hall estate, the surviving fabric suggests a C17 date.
Exterior
Constructed of brown brick on a heavy stone plinth to a square plan. Crow-stepped gables to each elevation. Low entrance to the north obscured by trees at time of resurvey in 1996 when the Dovecote was in a derelict and ruinous condition with large movement cracks to the walls, collapsed plinth stones and roof.
Interior
Inspection not possible at time of resurvey. Said to retain it's pigeon recesses.
Reason for designation
Listed as an example of a C17 dovecote notwithstanding condition.
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