Dovecote attached to the north of The Stables

Dovecote attached to the north of The Stables, Allerton Park

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1262210
Date first listed:: 15-Mar-1994
List Entry Name:: Dovecote attached to the north of The Stables
Statutory Address:: Dovecote attached to the north of The Stables, Allerton Park

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1262210
Date first listed:: 15-Mar-1994
List Entry Name:: Dovecote attached to the north of The Stables
Statutory Address 1:: Dovecote attached to the north of The Stables, Allerton Park

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Dovecote attached to the north of The Stables, Allerton Park

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Allerton Mauleverer with Hopperton
National Grid Reference:: SE4150958122

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 16 January 2024 to reformat the text to current standards

SE 45 NW 449-/3/10003

ALLERTON MAULEVERER WITH HOPPERTON ALLERTON PARK Dovecote attached to the north of The Stables

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Dovecote within a range of farmbuildings. Late C18. Possibly designed by Henry Holland. Red brick with hipped slate roof. Single storey. To the north a brick, round headed carriage arch linked to the stables (qv). The west front has a pair of large, off-centre carriage doors with to the right two cross casements with a stable door between, and beyond a three-light window. To the left an inserted two-light window, a blocked window, a door, a two-light glazing bar window, a blocked doorway, a four-light window and another blocked doorway. Above a square wooden lantern with slate roof and three rows of flight openings on the east and west fronts.

Interior: to the dovecote has three rows of free standing flight boxes, five tiers high with the boxes arranged 11,10,11,10,11 on either side. These flight boxes are made of terracotta, and they each have a round arched entrance and a flight perch.

This building is included on the list because it is a unique type of dovecote, with the flight boxes arranged in freestanding rows.

Listing NGR: SE4150958122

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Legacy System:: LBS

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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 32 North Yorkshire,

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.