DOVECOTE AT KNIGHTS GATE
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: I
List Entry Number: 1153047
Date first listed: 04-Jun-1952
Date of most recent amendment: 17-Jun-1986
Statutory Address: DOVECOTE AT KNIGHTS GATE, CHURCH ROAD
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Location
Statutory Address: DOVECOTE AT KNIGHTS GATE, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Gloucestershire
District: Cotswold (District Authority)
Parish: Quenington
National Grid Reference: SP 14752 03913
Summary
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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Details
SP 10 SW QUENINGTON CHURCH ROAD
(off west side)
6/238 Dovecote at Knights Gate (formerly
listed as Dovecote in grounds of
4.6.52 Quenington Court)
GV I
Dovecote. Reputed to be one mentioned in 1338, belonging to the
Knights Hospitallers, although thought by some to be C17. Small
round structure of rubble stone with projecting square section
string course about 0.5m below projecting eaves of conical stone
slate roof with retractable lantern "lid" with renewed stone ball
finial. Very small low doorway to west with timber lintel and
recessed plank door, slit vent over and to south. Inside wall is
perforated with about 600 dove holes stacked at an angle one above
each other inside wall, above rat rail around which moves revolving
ladder on central wooden pin, thought to be the original ladder (or
potence). Inside roof timbers have been strengthened with steel
straps.
(VCH, Gloucester, Vol,VII, 1981; David Verey, The Buildings of
England: Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, 1979)
Listing NGR: SP1475003913
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
Legacy System number: 129864
Legacy System: LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester, (1981)
Verey, D , The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 1 The Cotswolds, (1970)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing