Dovecote at Amwellbury Farm 30 Metres North of Amwellbury Farmhouse
DOVECOTE AT AMWELLBURY FARM 30 METRES NORTH OF AMWELLBURY FARMHOUSE, WALNUT TREE WALK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1076687
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jul-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Dovecote at Amwellbury Farm 30 Metres North of Amwellbury Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- DOVECOTE AT AMWELLBURY FARM 30 METRES NORTH OF AMWELLBURY FARMHOUSE, WALNUT TREE WALK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1076687
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jul-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Dovecote at Amwellbury Farm 30 Metres North of Amwellbury Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOVECOTE AT AMWELLBURY FARM 30 METRES NORTH OF AMWELLBURY FARMHOUSE, WALNUT TREE WALK
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 AMWELLBURY FARM 30 METRES NORTH OF AMWELLBURY FARMHOUSE, WALNUT TREE WALK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Amwell
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 36423 12963
Details
TL 3612 GREAT AMWELL WALNUT TREE WALK (north side)
11/3 Dovecote at Amwellbury Farm 30.7.82 30 metres north of Amwellbury Farmhouse
GV II
Dovecote. Circa 1700. An octagonal brick dovecote with steep old red tiled roof, with door on S. Red brick in irregular Flemish-bond with random black headers. Stucco strips to angles of walls and roof and round doorway. 13 " walls reddened and tuck pointed in C19. Wide plaster cove below moulded wooden eaves cornice. Steep octagonal tiled roof has bellcast eaves. Octagonal timber louvre with ledge and 3 holes on each face with diagonal diagonal lattice infill. Steep octagonal metal roof with angle rolls, and wrought iron wind vane on a ball. Projecting plastered plinth on N side where ground falls away. Rows of holes in interior for full height with remains of projecting timber supports for nestboxes. Walls plastered originally. Lath and plaster underceiling to roof and a single tie-beam with stopped chamfer and central hole in soffit for revolving ladder now gone. N E face has collapsed below cornice level. An historic brick dovecote associated with the manorial centre. Part of a picturesque group at Amwellbury. (RCHM (1911) 95: VCH (1912) 417: Pevsner (1977) 150).
Listing NGR: TL3642312963
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 355887
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, A, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1912), 417
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977), 150
Other
Inventory of the Historical Monuments of Hertfordshire, (1910)
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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