Gateway and Wall of Former Dovecote Adjoining Berwick House to North East
GATEWAY AND WALL OF FORMER DOVECOTE ADJOINING BERWICK HOUSE TO NORTH EAST, BERWICK ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1175004
- Date first listed:
- 27-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Gateway and Wall of Former Dovecote Adjoining Berwick House to North East
- Statutory Address:
- GATEWAY AND WALL OF FORMER DOVECOTE ADJOINING BERWICK HOUSE TO NORTH EAST, BERWICK ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1175004
- Date first listed:
- 27-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Gateway and Wall of Former Dovecote Adjoining Berwick House to North East
- Statutory Address 1:
- GATEWAY AND WALL OF FORMER DOVECOTE ADJOINING BERWICK HOUSE TO NORTH EAST, BERWICK ROAD
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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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- GATEWAY AND WALL OF FORMER DOVECOTE ADJOINING BERWICK HOUSE TO NORTH EAST, BERWICK ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bomere Heath and District
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 47101 14813
Details
BOMERE HEATH C.P. BERWICK ROAD (west side) SJ 41 SE 10/72 Gateway and wall of former - dovecote adjoining Berwick House to north-east
GV II
Gateway and former dovecote wall. Gateway c.1780, possibly by Robert Mylne, and dovecote wall c.1731. Gateway of grey sandstone ashlar faced onto red brick. Triple stepped plinth, dentil cornice, and blocking course with moulded top and central finial. Round archway with chamfered voussoirs and square antae with raised and fielded panels and moulded capitals. Pair of wooden gates. C19 lamp suspended from centre of arch. Front wall of former dovecote adjoining to right. Red brick with grey sandstone ashlar dressings. 2 storeys. Plinth with chamfered stone top, chamfered quoins, and remains of moulded cornice. 2 bays, blind windows with moulded stone cills and gauged-brick heads with triple keystones. Rear of dovecote wall has 189 nesting boxes with brick ledges. A map (still kept at Berwick) made of Berwick House (q.v.) and its surroundings in 1760 by Thomas Ansell shows the dovecote, but no gateway between it and the former stable block. Robert Mylne is known to have carried out some work at Berwick in 1780 for Thomas Jelf Powys and it is possible that the gateway is all that remains of this. The rest of the dovecote was probably demolished in 1878 to improve access to the new stable block (q.v.), built at that date to the north-east of the house. Colvin, p. 577; Shropshire Libraries maps collection (photocopy of Berwick map).
Listing NGR: SJ4710114813
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 259133
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of English Architects 1600-1840, (1954), 577
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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