DOVECOTE AND ADJOINING GATEWAY, SNOWSHILL MANOR

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1091822
Date first listed:: 04-Jul-1960
List Entry Name:: DOVECOTE AND ADJOINING GATEWAY, SNOWSHILL MANOR
Statutory Address:: DOVECOTE AND ADJOINING GATEWAY, SNOWSHILL MANOR

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1091822
Date first listed:: 04-Jul-1960
Date of most recent amendment:: 07-Sep-1987
List Entry Name:: DOVECOTE AND ADJOINING GATEWAY, SNOWSHILL MANOR
Statutory Address 1:: DOVECOTE AND ADJOINING GATEWAY, SNOWSHILL MANOR

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:: DOVECOTE AND ADJOINING GATEWAY, SNOWSHILL MANOR

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

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Tewkesbury (District Authority)
Parish:: Snowshill
National Grid Reference:: SP 09624 33841

Details

SNOWSHILL SNOWSHILL VILLAGE SP 0833-0933 12/50 Dovecote and adjoining gateway, Snowshill Manor (formerly listed as 4.7.60 part of Snowshill Manor with dove- cote and garden buildings)

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Dovecote and gateway. Late C16 or C17 dovecote, c1920 gateway, by and for C.P. Wade. Roughly squared, coursed stone with stone slate roof to dovecote; random rubble wall, ashlar gate posts: wooden gates. Dovecote square, no loft; gates in wall from one corner. Elevation towards house: boarded door with timber lintel on right, parapet gables, cross-gablet apices. Central, gabled glover on ridge, roof supported on timber posts, sides open. Right return window with stone lintel in gable, filled with wooden 'eggcrate'; boards below for landing platform. Set back on right return wall to gate, flat stone capping, sweeping up to square ashlar pier, moulded cap, cavetto to ball finial. Timber bar across to similar gate pier and wall, extending to garden house (q.v.). Double wooden gates, panelled below, bars above: 3 semi- circular steps beyond down to lower level. Interior: nests in rows in stone walls, as projecting strips: original entrance in back wall. One pair purlins to roof, plank ridge. Forms group with House and garden buildings (q.v.). (Snowshill Manor, 1985, National Trust guidebook)

Listing NGR: SP0962433841

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 134831
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Snowshill Manor Guide book
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 16 Gloucestershire,

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.