The Pigeon House
THE PIGEON HOUSE, PACKHORSE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1078800
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Pigeon House
- Statutory Address:
- THE PIGEON HOUSE, PACKHORSE LANE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1078800
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Pigeon House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE PIGEON HOUSE, PACKHORSE LANE
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:
- THE PIGEON HOUSE, PACKHORSE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Cotswold (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bibury
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 11777 06756
Details
BIBURY PACKHORSE LANE SP 1006-1106 (west side) 11/116 The Pigeon House 23.1.52 GV II* Detached house. Early C16; later C18 and C20 alterations. Random and coursed rubble limestone; ashlar chimney; stone slate roof. Cross passage plan; 2-storey. East front: 3 half gables to right part of elevation, each with timber casement; right gable is late C20 addition. Fenestration otherwise scattered including 2 and 3- light recessed chamfered mullioned casements with hoodmoulds. Central doorway with C20 glazed door and flat stone porch hood on shaped brackets. Central ridge-mounted chimney has restored octagonal shaft with lancet openings and original crocketed spire top. C20 single-storey addition to left is not of special interest. Rear: 1 half gable with 2-light mullioned casement, 2- light below. Fenestration otherwise timber casements with timber lintels. Interior: large central chimney stack has C16 upper floor fireplace with projecting stone hood on shaped brackets. Single arched braced collar truss in roof, curved feet of rafters projecting below later inserted ceiling. Stands on ancient packhorse route and is one of the earliest buildings in Bibury with several original features. Dovecote (q.v.) stands to north. (Illustrated in J.A. Gibbs, A Cotswold Villager 1898. A.R.J. Jurica, 'Bibury' in V.C.H. Glos. vii, 1981, p 21-44; and D. Verey, Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, 1979
Listing NGR: SP1181206695
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 127364
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 1 The Cotswolds, (1970)
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester, (1981), 21-44
Gibbs, J A, A Cotswold Village, (1898)
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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