Bird's Farmhouse and attached dovecote and barn
Bird's Farmhouse and attached dovecote and barn, Twyning Green
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1091868
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Bird's Farmhouse and attached dovecote and barn
- Statutory Address:
- Bird's Farmhouse and attached dovecote and barn, Twyning Green
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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1091868
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Bird's Farmhouse and attached dovecote and barn
- Statutory Address 1:
- Bird's Farmhouse and attached dovecote and barn, Twyning Green
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:
- Bird's Farmhouse and attached dovecote and barn, Twyning Green
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Tewkesbury (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Twyning
- National Grid Reference:
- SO8989036795
Details
This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 30 April 2019.
SO 8936
13/184
TWYNING
TWYNING GREEN
Bird's Farmhouse and attached dovecote and barn
GV
II
Farmhouse and barn and buildings linking farmhouse to barn.
Farmhouse C17. Barn and buildings linking farmhouse to barn early C20. Farmhouse; square-panelled timber framing with rendered infill. Gable-end facing road refaced in painted brick. Tile roof with some decorative segmental tiling. Brick stacks. Dovecote; brick. Barn; square-panelled timber framing with brick infill and thatched roof. Buildings linking dovecote and barn to farmhouse brick. Tile roof to dovecote and linking buildings. 'L'-shaped plan to farm. Open-fronted store runs back rear right to former dovecote. Range of loose boxes to right link dovecote to barn. Single-storey outbuildings continue to the right of the barn.
Farmhouse; One and a half storeys with gable projecting forwards on the right. Fenestration comprises C20 two and four-light wooden casements with glazing bars. Three dormers from eaves of roadside front. C19 plank door with flat leaded canopy on brackets at centre of main body. Two large roof dormers from eaves of right-hand return with four-light casements with transoms. Decorative plasterwork including a fleur-de-lys in gables of dormers. Part-glazed lean-to along ground floor of right-hand return. Off-the-ridge and lateral stacks. Four-bay lean-to runs back from rear right-hand corner linking farmhouse to dovecote with a cross-gabled roof (lantern now removed). Loose boxes to right of dovecote linking dovecote to barn. Barn with double doors in the east and west wall. North gable end half-hipped. Single-storey outbuilding continues to the right of the barn with cross-gable terminating in a single-storey outbuilding.
Interiors not inspected.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 134592
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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