Dovecote at Shenton Hall
DOVECOTE AT SHENTON HALL, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1074248
- Date first listed:
- 07-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Dovecote at Shenton Hall
- Statutory Address:
- DOVECOTE AT SHENTON HALL, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1074248
- Date first listed:
- 07-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Dovecote at Shenton Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOVECOTE AT SHENTON HALL, MAIN STREET
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- DOVECOTE AT SHENTON HALL, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Hinckley and Bosworth (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Dadlington & Sutton Cheney
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 38679 00291
Details
SUTTON CHENEY SK30 SE MAIN STREET, SHENTON 4/120 (South East Side)
7.11.66 Dovecote at Shenton Hall
GV II*
Dovecote, dated 1719. Brick with plain tiled roof. Square in plan, each elevation gabled. Two storeyed with brick string courses. Doorway in eastern elevation. Central leaded cupola giving entrance for doves. Inside, the walls are completely lined with nesting boxes, and the central potence with its pair of ladders survives intact and in working order.
Listing NGR: SK3867900291
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 188115
- 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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