DOVECOTE

DOVECOTE, THE BARTON

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1174418
Date first listed:: 11-Mar-1968
List Entry Name:: DOVECOTE
Statutory Address:: DOVECOTE, THE BARTON

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Date:: 2002-09-29
Reference:: IOE01/09059/21
Rights:: © Mr Robert Hornyold-Strickland. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1174418
Date first listed:: 11-Mar-1968
List Entry Name:: DOVECOTE
Statutory Address 1:: DOVECOTE, THE BARTON

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, THE BARTON

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Norton St. Philip
National Grid Reference:: ST 77132 55925

Details

ST7755 NORTON ST. PHILIP CP THE BARTON (West side)

11/207 Dovecote

11.3.68

II*

Dovecote. C15. Random rubble, Doulting stone with ashlar quoins and coved free-stone eaves. Stone slate coped gable roof with moulded kneelers and cruciform finials. Single storey rectangular plan 4-centred chamfered arch stone door frame with keyed stone relieving arch over at mid point of south elevation. Vertical boarded and lopped door. Later, possibly C19, square head door opening on North side. Single-light 4-centred head with spandrels, stone framed, moulded opening in east gable. Interior; 3 bays, 2-'A' frame trusses with collars and single row of purlins, ashlared rafters. Nesting holes on 4 sides in 3 tiers, approximately 670. Scheduled Ancient Monument (Somerset County No 291). (Abbot Horne; list of Somerset dovecotes, Local History Library).

Listing NGR: ST7713255925

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Legacy System number:: 267153
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Horne, A, List of Somerset Dovecotes

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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.