Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Dovecote at Erbistock Hall
Erbistock, Wrexham, Wales
A Grade II* listed building in Erbistock, Wrexham, designated on 7 June 1963.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II*
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 7 June 1963
- Community
- Erbistock
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.97537, -2.96768
- Cadw reference
- 1578
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 121 Wrexham (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated SE of Erbistock Hall which is 1.5 km N of Erbistock.
History
C18 circular brick dovecote dated 1737.
Exterior
Free-standing circular dovecote, hand-made red bricks in flemish bond, slightly projecting brick string course. Conical slate roof, domed wooden cupola and weather-vane dated 1737. Entry through single doorway with stone lintel and keystone detail, wooden door. 2 stone lined oval window openings.
Interior
Said to contain 700 pigeon nesting recesses. Full inspection not carried out at time of 1994 resurvey.
Reason for designation
Graded II* as an architecturally distinguished composition and an especially well-preserved early C18 dovecote.
Group value with Erbistock Hall.
Nearby in the register
- Erbistock HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Farmbuilding to North of Erbistock HallAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Min-Yr-AfonDomesticunder 1 mi
- Overton BridgeTransportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.