Dovecote About 10 Metres North West of the Manor Hotel
DOVECOTE ABOUT 10 METRES NORTH WEST OF THE MANOR HOTEL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1105586
- Date first listed:
- 07-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Dovecote About 10 Metres North West of the Manor Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- DOVECOTE ABOUT 10 METRES NORTH WEST OF THE MANOR HOTEL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1105586
- Date first listed:
- 07-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Dovecote About 10 Metres North West of the Manor Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOVECOTE ABOUT 10 METRES NORTH WEST OF THE MANOR HOTEL
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 ABOUT 10 METRES NORTH WEST OF THE MANOR HOTEL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lewtrenchard
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 45855 86095
Details
SX 48 NE LEW TRENCHARD LEW TRENCHARD
4/110 Dovecote about 10m north west of - the Manor Hotel
GV II*
Dovecot. Late C19 designed by Sabine Baring-Gould for himself. Dressed stone with granite dressings and scantle slate roof. Remarkable design, semi-circular to the front but flat to the rear with steeply-pitched conical roof gabled to the rear and crowned by a pinnacle. 2 stages to dovecot marked by roll-moulded granite rat-guard string. At the front the roof is carried out over exposed rafters. Gablerd entrance for birds in roof at front has a rectangular granite opening below a grand semi- circular pediment crowned by an obelisk pinnacle. Similar pinnacles to either side of the pediment. Dove holes in front have semi-circular granite flight ledges carried on granite corbels. To the rear the gable is filled with characteristic Baring-Gould slate-hanging carried out over moulded bressumers. Door at rear. The dovecot is an important foil to the pavilion at the south east of the house (see Manor Hotel). The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924) was both squire and parson at Lew Trenchard from 1881 until his death, and rebuilt Lew House, now the Manor Hotel. He was a High Churchman, antiquarian and prolific author of fiction and theological works.
Listing NGR: SX4584586097
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 92356
- 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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