Dovecote at Number 23 (Merton Manor Farm)

DOVECOTE AT NUMBER 23 (MERTON MANOR FARM), 23, STATION ROAD, GAMLINGAY, SG19 3HA

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1128149
Date first listed:
22-Nov-1967
List Entry Name:
Dovecote at Number 23 (Merton Manor Farm)
Statutory Address:
DOVECOTE AT NUMBER 23 (MERTON MANOR FARM), 23, STATION ROAD, GAMLINGAY, SG19 3HA

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1128149
Date first listed:
22-Nov-1967
Date of most recent amendment:
03-Sept-1986
List Entry Name:
Dovecote at Number 23 (Merton Manor Farm)
Statutory Address 1:
DOVECOTE AT NUMBER 23 (MERTON MANOR FARM), 23, STATION ROAD, GAMLINGAY, SG19 3HA

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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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
DOVECOTE AT NUMBER 23 (MERTON MANOR FARM), 23, STATION ROAD, GAMLINGAY, SG19 3HA

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

County:
Cambridgeshire
District:
South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Gamlingay
National Grid Reference:
TL 24252 52117

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 29/06/2016

TL 2452 12/89

GAMLINGAY
STATION ROAD (North side)
Dovecote at No. 23 (Merton Manor Farm)

(Formerly listed as Dovecote at No. 23 (The Manor House), previously listed as Manor Farmhouse and dovecote)

22.11.67

GV
II
Dovecote. Late C17. Red brick, English bond, and pyramidal, tiled roof rising to four gables with landing stage openings. Doorway in west wall. Inside there are some nesting boxes remaining. Possibly contemporary with a barn, now demolished, which was dated 1660.

RCHM: West Cambs mon (4)


Listing NGR: TL2425252117

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
52752
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Cambridgeshire West, (1968)

Legal

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

Ordnance survey map of Dovecote at Number 23 (Merton Manor Farm)

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