Dovecote and Flanking Walls in Stable Yard at Penheale
DOVECOTE AND FLANKING WALLS IN STABLE YARD AT PENHEALE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142919
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jan-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Dovecote and Flanking Walls in Stable Yard at Penheale
- Statutory Address:
- DOVECOTE AND FLANKING WALLS IN STABLE YARD AT PENHEALE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142919
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jan-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Dovecote and Flanking Walls in Stable Yard at Penheale
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOVECOTE AND FLANKING WALLS IN STABLE YARD AT PENHEALE
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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.
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 AND FLANKING WALLS IN STABLE YARD AT PENHEALE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Egloskerry
- National Grid Reference:
- SX2674088081
Details
EGLOSKERRY PENHEALE
SX 28 NE
8/56 Dovecote and flanking walls in
- stable yard at Penheale
GV II
Dovecote and flanking walls. Probably C18. Stone rubble with dressed stone quoins.
Octagonal slate roof with deep overhanging eaves and octagonal slate cap.
Plan: The dovecote is of octagonal plan on the exterior and circular plan on the
interior. It was probably originally of 2 stages with a line of large recesses at
ground floor level, possibly used for geese with nesting holes above, possibly for
hens. The bolins are restricted to the top stage with an access-hole provided in the
roof. The roof was renewed in the 1980s following the design of the earlier
structure.
Exterior: Octagonal dovecote of two stages; dressed stone segmental arch to entrance
with similar door opening directly above, flanked by unglazed windows with timber
frames. There is a slate string near the top, on all faces. The octagonal slate
roof has deep overhanging eaves and is surmounted by an octagonal slate cap with a
continuous access hole for the pigeons between. The cap is raised on corbelled
brackets which are integral with the radiating trusses of the roof structure.
Flanking the dovecote are high stone rubble walls with battlemented tops which form
the south wall enclosing the stable yard.
Interior: The floor and potence has been removed. There is a line of large niches
at floor level with nesting holes, possibly for hen boxes above. Above the line of
the first floor are several rows of bolins for the pigeons.
Listing NGR: SX2674088081
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 67946
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 8 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly,
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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