DOVECOTE APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES WEST OF WEST FRONT OF CASTLE ASHBY

DOVECOTE APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES WEST OF WEST FRONT OF CASTLE ASHBY, CASTLE ASHBY PARK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1041601
Date first listed:: 06-Sep-1988
List Entry Name:: DOVECOTE APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES WEST OF WEST FRONT OF CASTLE ASHBY
Statutory Address:: DOVECOTE APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES WEST OF WEST FRONT OF CASTLE ASHBY, CASTLE ASHBY PARK

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1041601
Date first listed:: 06-Sep-1988
List Entry Name:: DOVECOTE APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES WEST OF WEST FRONT OF CASTLE ASHBY
Statutory Address 1:: DOVECOTE APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES WEST OF WEST FRONT OF CASTLE ASHBY, CASTLE ASHBY 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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: DOVECOTE APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES WEST OF WEST FRONT OF CASTLE ASHBY, CASTLE ASHBY PARK

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

District:: West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Castle Ashby
National Grid Reference:: SP 86223 59249

Details

CASTLE ASHBY CASTLE ASHBY PARK SP8659 13/22 Dovecote approx. 20m W of west front of Castle Ashby

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Dovecote. c.1800, restored C20. Timber. Square cote with pyramidal ridged timber roof on square Doric pillar. 3 tiers of roostings with cusped arched head to central openings others round-headed. Perches below roostings on brackets. Overhanging bracketed eaves. Another wider perch below capital of supporting post on curved brackets. A dovecote has stood in the same position to centre of court by west front of Castle Ashby (q.v.) since at least C17. The present structure is shown in a drawing by George Clarke of Scaldwell of c.1820.

Listing NGR: SP8622359249

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Legacy System number:: 235422
Legacy System:: LBS

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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 30 Northamptonshire,

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