DOVECOT AT FLIXTON HALL

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1031986
Date first listed:: 01-Sep-1953
List Entry Name:: DOVECOT AT FLIXTON HALL
Statutory Address:: DOVECOT AT FLIXTON HALL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1031986
Date first listed:: 01-Sep-1953
List Entry Name:: DOVECOT AT FLIXTON HALL
Statutory Address 1:: DOVECOT AT FLIXTON HALL

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: DOVECOT AT FLIXTON HALL

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

County:: Suffolk
District:: East Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Flixton
National Grid Reference:: TM 30492 85903

Details

FLIXTON BY BUNGAY TM 38 NW 2/1 Dovecot at Flixton Hall (formerly listed as Pigeon 1.9.53 Cote, Flixton Hall)

- II*

Dovecot to the former Flixton Hall. Early C17. Red brick and plaintiles. Circular, with a conical roof; the brick is laid in English Bond, and the roof surmounted by an octagonal wooden cupola with semi-circular arched openings and concave roof. 3 square window openings at different levels, with chamfered surrounds to the brickwork: one has an original leaded-paned casement window. A small original doorway, set high with chamfered surround and plank door. Inside, 23 tiers of small, square nesting boxes are set into the walls. A central post, with a circular platform on top about 15 feet from the ground, has a ladder joined to it. The ladder has a single central shaft to which rungs are attached, and rotates with the post so that the nesting- boxes can be reached.

Listing NGR: TM3049285903

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 282261
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

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