Dovecote Approximately 8 Metres to South-west of Whitton Hall
DOVECOTE APPROXIMATELY 8 METRES TO SOUTH-WEST OF WHITTON HALL, WHITTON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176770
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Dovecote Approximately 8 Metres to South-west of Whitton Hall
- Statutory Address:
- DOVECOTE APPROXIMATELY 8 METRES TO SOUTH-WEST OF WHITTON HALL, WHITTON LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176770
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Dovecote Approximately 8 Metres to South-west of Whitton Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOVECOTE APPROXIMATELY 8 METRES TO SOUTH-WEST OF WHITTON HALL, WHITTON LANE
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.
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:
- DOVECOTE APPROXIMATELY 8 METRES TO SOUTH-WEST OF WHITTON HALL, WHITTON LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Westbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 34557 09081
Details
SJ 3404 WESTBURY C.P. WHITTON LANE (North-west side)
17/135 Dovecote approximately 8 - metres to south-west of Whitton Hall GV II
Dovecote. Early C18. Red brick; conical graded slate roof. Circular plan. Chamfered plinth, toothed-brick band approximately half-way up, and dentil brick eaves cornice; round-arched dormers to north-west and south-east, and central circular glover with turned wooden balusters, and conical slate cap with wooden finial. Segmental- headed opening high up to south-west; segmental-headed boarded door to north-east. Interior: approximately 520 L-shaped nest holes with ledges; central rotating potence with 3 projecting arms for ladders at different heights. Cobbled floor. The dovecote forms part of a good country house group with Whitton Hall (q.v.). H.E. Forrest, FLS, Some old Shropshire houses and their owners (1924), pp. 6-7.
Listing NGR: SJ3455709081
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 259042
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Forrest, H E, Some Old Shropshire Houses and their Owners, (1924), 6-7
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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