DOVECOTE, PAUNTLEY COURT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1078606
Date first listed:: 02-Oct-1954
List Entry Name:: DOVECOTE, PAUNTLEY COURT
Statutory Address:: DOVECOTE, PAUNTLEY COURT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1078606
Date first listed:: 02-Oct-1954
Date of most recent amendment:: 18-Oct-1985
List Entry Name:: DOVECOTE, PAUNTLEY COURT
Statutory Address 1:: DOVECOTE, PAUNTLEY COURT

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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Location

Statutory Address:: DOVECOTE, PAUNTLEY COURT

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

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Forest of Dean (District Authority)
Parish:: Pauntley
National Grid Reference:: SO 74884 29034

Details

SO 72 NW PAUNTLEY -

3/205 Dovecote, Pauntley Court (formerly listed as part of Pauntley Court, with Dovecote and Barn 60 yards south 2.10.54 of Pauntley court)

GV II

Dovecote: C17; coursed, squared stone, tiled roof. Square, gabled each face, 2 floors with cellar below. Facade to drive: plain plinth at ground level, extends around whole building. Central boarded door with cat hole in heavy timber frame, up 3 stone steps: flat head, 3-piece lintel with projecting keystone and dummy joints for voussoirs. Either side a 2-light timber window, vertical bars on left, rebate for leaded lights, internal boarded shutter, lintels as door, but keystone flush on left, replaced in brick on right. Slit to cellar on left partly built up. Gable over slightly set in from corners. Square glover at intersection of ridges, faced corrugated iron, pyramid roof, wooden finial. Ground falls to back: cellar door centre, elliptical head, double ovolo moulding, brick arch internally: lower parts sides cut back for barrels. Slit either side, that on left built up. Single window above, as front. Access to top floor left return originally, doorway now built up, reached by ladder. Internally, ground floor plastered walls, window each wall; 2 beams over. Dovecote top floor, brick nests with projecting ledge on insides of gables. Single truss, across building, tie beam, collar, angle struts, principals stop above collar: 2 pairs purlins, square ridge. Glover louvred: access for birds presumably through windows, unless louvres an alteration. Forms part of group with Court, stable, church and mill (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SO7488629035

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Legacy System number:: 125741
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.