Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Dovecote at Pickhill Old Hall
Sesswick, Wrexham, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Pickhill, Sesswick, Wrexham, designated on 7 June 1963.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 7 June 1963
- Locality
- Pickhill
- Community
- Sesswick
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.01612, -2.91191
- Cadw reference
- 1637
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)
- 1861 · 73. Market Drayton. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1897 · 122 Nantwich (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated to the south-east of Pickhill Old Hall, diagonally opposite its main front, on the edge of steeply sloping ground.
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.
Nearby in the register
- Talwrn HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Pickhill FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Pickhill Hall LodgeDomesticunder 1 mi
- Gate and gate-piers at Pickhill Hall LodgeDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.