DOVECOTE AT FAULSTON HOUSE

DOVECOTE AT FAULSTON HOUSE, MILL LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1146160
Date first listed:: 23-Mar-1960
List Entry Name:: DOVECOTE AT FAULSTON HOUSE
Statutory Address:: DOVECOTE AT FAULSTON HOUSE, MILL LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1146160
Date first listed:: 23-Mar-1960
List Entry Name:: DOVECOTE AT FAULSTON HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: DOVECOTE AT FAULSTON HOUSE, MILL LANE

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: DOVECOTE AT FAULSTON HOUSE, MILL LANE

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

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Bishopstone
National Grid Reference:: SU 07289 25631

Details

SU 02 NE BISHOPSTONE MILL LANE (north side)

5/54 Dovecote at Faulston House 23.3.60

GV II*

Dovecote. Early Cl7. Flint with dressed limestone bands, conical tiled roof with raised conical louvre at apex. Formerly of several storeys, now open from ground to roof. North side facing Faulston House (q.v.) has tall chamfered doorway, upper part now blocked, to left is first floor planked door and recessed chamfered square windows or loopholes. West side has blocked Tudor-arched opening at upper floor level and several loopholes. South side has one blocked and one open recessed chamfered window. Interior has stone corbels to former first floor, walls above are lined with stone pigeon boxes, renewed roof timbers. According to-local legend and John Aubrey there were once four such towers around the moated Faulston House, but this has not been substantiated. (John Aubrey, The Natural History of Wiltshire, 1847)

Listing NGR: SU0728925631

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Legacy System number:: 320640
Legacy System:: LBS

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Aubrey, J, Natural History of Wiltshire, (1847)

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