RUINS OF DOVECOTE NORTH WEST OF COURT HOUSE FARM

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1043357
Date first listed:: 13-Oct-1952
List Entry Name:: RUINS OF DOVECOTE NORTH WEST OF COURT HOUSE FARM
Statutory Address:: RUINS OF DOVECOTE NORTH WEST OF COURT HOUSE FARM

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1043357
Date first listed:: 13-Oct-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 26-Nov-1985
List Entry Name:: RUINS OF DOVECOTE NORTH WEST OF COURT HOUSE FARM
Statutory Address 1:: RUINS OF DOVECOTE NORTH WEST OF COURT HOUSE FARM

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

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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:: RUINS OF DOVECOTE NORTH WEST OF COURT HOUSE FARM

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County:: East Sussex
District:: Wealden (District Authority)
Parish:: Alciston
National Park:: SOUTH DOWNS
National Grid Reference:: TQ 50542 05563

Details

TQ 5005 ALCISTON Ruins of Dovecote north west of Court 36/135A House Farm

13.10.52 II*

Former dovecote, since partly converted to other outbuilding use. Medieval, possibly C14. Ruins of a possibly square dovecote, faced with flints, with stone quoins and nesting boxes. Later arch in east wall. Presently in form of two bays. Roofless northern bay without west and most of north walls, but retaining nesting boxes in east and south walls. Southern bay currently with lean-to roof, with nesting boxes in east and north walls. See Sussex Archaeological Collections, Vol 116 (1978).

Listing NGR: TQ5054205564

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Legacy System number:: 294875
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.