Dovecote

DOVECOTE, DOVECOTE YARD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1040703
Date first listed:
28-May-1954
List Entry Name:
Dovecote
Statutory Address:
DOVECOTE, DOVECOTE YARD
Grade ll listed Dovecote located in 
Orlingbury, Northamptonshire. My Mothers family (Cowper) lived here 
1930s to 1940s
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Date:
2006-03-03
Reference:
IOE01/15164/34
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© Mr Roger Ashley. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1040703
Date first listed:
28-May-1954
Date of most recent amendment:
13-May-1986
List Entry Name:
Dovecote
Statutory Address 1:
DOVECOTE, DOVECOTE YARD

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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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The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
DOVECOTE, DOVECOTE YARD

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

District:
North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Orlingbury
National Grid Reference:
SP8614972320

Details

ORLINGBURY DOVECOTE YARD
SP8672 (South side)
13/269 Dovecote
28/05/54 (Formerly listed as Dovecote
west of Home Farm, Rectory
Lane)

- II

Dovecote. Probably mid C17. Regular coursed limestone with ironstone dressings
and plain-tile roof. Rectangular one-unit plan. Small door in north gable under
wood lintel. 2-light casement under wood lintel to west elevation. Ashlar gable
parapets and kneelers. Slate hung glover with pyramid roof. Interior not
inspected.


Listing NGR: SP8614972320

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Legacy System number:
233553
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.

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