This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.
MUCH MARCLE CP - SO 63 SE
8/54 Dovecote about 20 yards north of Hellens (formerly 18.11.52 listed as Hellens with Dovecote)
GV II*
Dovecote. "1641/ W / FM " on west side. Brick, plaster quoins and string courses, tiled roof and wooden glover. Octagonal. Two almost continuous string courses, square and diamond patterns in brickwork, chamfered 4-centred doorway to south side above which is an inserted C18 or early C19 segmentally- headed window which interrupts the lower string course. Interior: remains of bottom part of potence; about 20 rows of sawn-off tenons indicate that there were projecting nesting ledges rather than hollowed-out nests. (RCHM Vol II, p 131).
Listing NGR: SO6614433269
This is part of the Series: IOE01/1936 IOE Records taken by Angela Stanger-Leathes; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England
© Angela Stanger-Leathes. Source: Historic England Archive
This photograph was taken for the Images of England project
Photographer: Stanger-Leathes, Angela
Rights Holder: Stanger-Leathes, Angela
Brick, Plaster, Tile, Wood, Stuart Dovecote, Agriculture And Subsistence, Agricultural Building
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