COLUMBARIUM AT HAWLEY MANOR DOVECOTE TO SOUTH WEST OF HAWLEY MANOR

COLUMBARIUM AT HAWLEY MANOR, HAWLEY ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1085812
Date first listed:: 01-Aug-1952
List Entry Name:: COLUMBARIUM AT HAWLEY MANOR DOVECOTE TO SOUTH WEST OF HAWLEY MANOR
Statutory Address:: COLUMBARIUM AT HAWLEY MANOR, HAWLEY ROAD

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Date:: 1999-08-26
Reference:: IOE01/14919/33
Rights:: © Mr Ron Garvey. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1085812
Date first listed:: 01-Aug-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 17-Mar-1982
List Entry Name:: COLUMBARIUM AT HAWLEY MANOR DOVECOTE TO SOUTH WEST OF HAWLEY MANOR
Statutory Address 1:: COLUMBARIUM AT HAWLEY MANOR, HAWLEY ROAD
Statutory Address 2:: DOVECOTE TO SOUTH WEST OF HAWLEY MANOR, HAWLEY ROAD

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: COLUMBARIUM AT HAWLEY MANOR, HAWLEY ROAD
Statutory Address:: DOVECOTE TO SOUTH WEST OF HAWLEY MANOR, HAWLEY ROAD

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

County:: Kent
District:: Dartford (District Authority)
Parish:: Sutton-at-Hone and Hawley
National Grid Reference:: TQ 54886 72048

Details

1. 5274 SUTTON-AT-HONE HAWLEY ROAD (south-west side) Hawley

Dovecot to south-west of Hawley Manor (formerly listed as TQ 57 SW 3/75 1.8.52 Columbarium at Hawley Manor)

II* GV

2. Dated 1556 on north-west gable but probably C17. The date does not appear on a photograph of 1890. Large red brick square pigeon house laid in English Bond. Pyramidal old tiled roof with curved gable to 3 faces. This is surmounted by an elaborate glazed louvre with ogee-shaped tiled canopy having pendants which were renewed in 1922. Moulded wooden eaves cornice. The interior contains 549 nesting boxes and 2 wooden beams with pegs used to gain access to the holes and a smaller ladder to gain access inside the roof. This is a fine example of a brick dovecot. (See article in Archaeologia Cantinna 1974). A.M.

Listing NGR: TQ5477872229

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Legacy System number:: 172709
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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'Archaeologia Cantiana' in Archaeologia Cantiana, (1974)

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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.