Idlicote House, Dovecote Approximately 200 Metres North West
IDLICOTE HOUSE, DOVECOTE APPROXIMATELY 200 METRES NORTH WEST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1186045
- Date first listed:
- 02-Sept-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Idlicote House, Dovecote Approximately 200 Metres North West
- Statutory Address:
- IDLICOTE HOUSE, DOVECOTE APPROXIMATELY 200 METRES NORTH WEST
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1186045
- Date first listed:
- 02-Sept-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Idlicote House, Dovecote Approximately 200 Metres North West
- Statutory Address 1:
- IDLICOTE HOUSE, DOVECOTE APPROXIMATELY 200 METRES NORTH WEST
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:
- IDLICOTE HOUSE, DOVECOTE APPROXIMATELY 200 METRES NORTH WEST
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Idlicote
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 28242 44280
Details
IDLICOTE SP2844 8/158 Idlicote House, dovecote 02/09/52 approx. 200m. NW (Formerly listed as Pidgeoncote in grounds of Idlicote House)
GV II
Dovecote. C18 and earlier with later alterations and additions. Limestone laid to regular courses. Sandstone quoins. Pyramidal slated roof surmounted by ball finial and weather-vane behind embattled parapet. 3 stages. Wood door with 4-centred stone surrounds. Remodelled Gothic details including cruciform arrowslits, an ogee leaded window, and a stone mullioned and transomed window. Flat band to second stage. Ironstone plinth. Probably brought from Kenilworth Abbey/Castle and re-erected in Idlicote (VCH). (V.C.H.: Warwickshire, Vol.V, p.95; Buildings of England: Warwickshire, 1981, p.316).
Listing NGR: SP2824244280
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 305921
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Warwick, (1949), 95
Pevsner, N, Wedgewood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1981), 316
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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