DOVEHOUSE APPROXIMATELY 50 METRES SOUTH SOUTH WEST OF MATCHING HALL

DOVEHOUSE APPROXIMATELY 50 METRES SOUTH SOUTH WEST OF MATCHING HALL, CHURCH GREEN

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1123917
Date first listed:: 22-Feb-1952
List Entry Name:: DOVEHOUSE APPROXIMATELY 50 METRES SOUTH SOUTH WEST OF MATCHING HALL
Statutory Address:: DOVEHOUSE APPROXIMATELY 50 METRES SOUTH SOUTH WEST OF MATCHING HALL, CHURCH GREEN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1123917
Date first listed:: 22-Feb-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 26-Apr-1984
List Entry Name:: DOVEHOUSE APPROXIMATELY 50 METRES SOUTH SOUTH WEST OF MATCHING HALL
Statutory Address 1:: DOVEHOUSE APPROXIMATELY 50 METRES SOUTH SOUTH WEST OF MATCHING HALL, CHURCH GREEN

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: DOVEHOUSE APPROXIMATELY 50 METRES SOUTH SOUTH WEST OF MATCHING HALL, CHURCH GREEN

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

County:: Essex
District:: Epping Forest (District Authority)
Parish:: Matching
National Grid Reference:: TL 52533 11845

Details

TL 51 SW MATCHING CHURCH GREEN 3/59 Dovehouse approx. 50 metres 22.2.52 SSW of Matching Hall (formerly listed as Matching-Hill and Dovecote)

GV II

Dovehouse, late C17/early C18. Red brick, Flemish bond, with flared blue headers, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. Square with pyramidal roof. Blocked C20 chimney inside N wall, formerly served ancillary building to N, now demolished. C20 brick buttress outside N wall, matching chimney on the inside. Lean-to garage to S weatherboarded with roof of C20 Roman tiles. Nest boxes missing, but remaining evidence, clearest inside the wall, indicates that the sides were constructed of projecting bricks, edge upwards, and the ledges of tiles. RCHM 6.

Listing NGR: TL5253311845

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 118148
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
An Inventory of Essex Central and South West, (1921)

Legal

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