Dovecote and attached outbuilding on west side of farmyard at Riddings Farm

Dovecote and attached outbuilding on west side of farmyard at Riddings Farm, Lawn Lane

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1151611
Date first listed:
29-Sept-1987
List Entry Name:
Dovecote and attached outbuilding on west side of farmyard at Riddings Farm
Statutory Address:
Dovecote and attached outbuilding on west side of farmyard at Riddings Farm, Lawn Lane

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1151611
Date first listed:
29-Sept-1987
List Entry Name:
Dovecote and attached outbuilding on west side of farmyard at Riddings Farm
Statutory Address 1:
Dovecote and attached outbuilding on west side of farmyard at Riddings Farm, Lawn Lane

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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 and attached outbuilding on west side of farmyard at Riddings Farm, Lawn Lane

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

District:
Doncaster (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Fenwick
National Grid Reference:
SE 60494 16388

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 15 November 2021 to update text and reformat to current standards

SE 61 NW
2/4

FENWICK
LAWN LANE (east end)
Dovecote and attached outbuilding on west side of farmyard at Riddings Farm

GV
II

Dovecote and attached outbuilding. Late C18 of two builds. Red brick in English garden wall bond, stone slate eaves courses to pantile roof. Three and two storeys: 1: 4: 1 bays, the right end bay of later date. Three-storey, single-cell dovecote at north end of range has windows to ground and first floor on west side with blocked pigeon holes to upper storey; eaves band; shaped kneelers and gable copings. Four-bay part to right has segmentally-arched doorway and scattered fenestration of casements and has two boarded hatches. End bay to right with doorway on left of casements to each floor, blocked doorway to first floor on right. Shaped kneelers and gable copings on right, brick ridge stack. Rear: external steps to the dovecote.

Interior: principal-rafter trusses with raking queen struts; remains of nesting holes in dovecote.

Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SE6049416388

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
334578
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.

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