Dovecote
DOVECOTE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1092912
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1957
- List Entry Name:
- Dovecote
- Statutory Address:
- DOVECOTE
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- 2001-07-24
- Reference:
- IOE01/04984/11
- Rights:
- © Mr Anthony Chapman. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1092912
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1957
- List Entry Name:
- Dovecote
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOVECOTE
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:
- DOVECOTE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hampshire
- District:
- Basingstoke and Deane (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Old Basing and Lychpit
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 66073 52616
Details
SU 6652 OLD BASING BASING HOUSE 6653 22/63 26.4.57 Dovecote
II*
C16. Inserted at the angle in the Garden Wall. An irregular octagon with a conical (hipped) tile roof surmounted by a finial, the eaves being heavy beams on projecting brackets. Red brickwork in English bond, with diaper patterning (incomplete) in blue headers; offset and plinths. The doorway has a heavy solid frame; in the roof above this is a dormer with a weather-boarded front of ledges and pigeon holes. Within, the building is circular, with a casing of pigeon holes formed in chalk blocks (4 band each of 5 levels interspersed with brick bands). Between the roof framing and a block fixed in the centre of the floor is a potence a vertical spindle with arms (re-inforced by brackets) supporting a ladder, for access to the pigeon holes.
Listing NGR: SU6613352592
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 138835
- 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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