Dovecote at North West Corner of Garden to Howard House

DOVECOTE AT NORTH WEST CORNER OF GARDEN TO HOWARD HOUSE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1151497
Date first listed:
05-Jun-1968
List Entry Name:
Dovecote at North West Corner of Garden to Howard House
Statutory Address:
DOVECOTE AT NORTH WEST CORNER OF GARDEN TO HOWARD HOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1151497
Date first listed:
05-Jun-1968
Date of most recent amendment:
26-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:
Dovecote at North West Corner of Garden to Howard House
Statutory Address 1:
DOVECOTE AT NORTH WEST CORNER OF GARDEN TO HOWARD HOUSE

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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
DOVECOTE AT NORTH WEST CORNER OF GARDEN TO HOWARD HOUSE

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

District:
Doncaster (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Loversall
National Grid Reference:
SK 57484 98595

Details

LOVERSALL LOVERSALL SK59NE

5/50 Dovecote at north-west 5.6.68 corner of garden to Howard House (formerly listed as Loversall Hall Dovecote)

II

Dovecote. C17. Banded magnesian limestone rubble and thinly-coursed rubble, stone slate roof. 2 storeys, single cell; rectangular. East gable: plinth, irregular quoins; central doorway in bonded ashlar surround; to its left a square window with cemented ashlar surround; continuous ledge below eaves; similar square window to gable having shaped kneelers but the gable copings missing. Octagonal wooden lantern with some pointed casement windows and upswept leaded roof with wrought-iron finial. Rear: gable retains copings and has pyramidal and ball finials. Right return: central doorway with round brick arch. Interior: ground-floor divided into two cells, probably stable and store; 1st-floor nesting holes in stone and brick. Situated at corner of former kitchen garden to Loversall Hall (q.v.)

Listing NGR: SK5748498595

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
334824
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.

Ordnance survey map of Dovecote at North West Corner of Garden to Howard House

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