DOVECOTE CIRCA 20 YARDS SOUTH OF NEW SHELVE FARMHOUSE

DOVECOTE CIRCA 20 YARDS SOUTH OF NEW SHELVE FARMHOUSE, FORSTAL ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1186186
Date first listed:: 14-Dec-1984
List Entry Name:: DOVECOTE CIRCA 20 YARDS SOUTH OF NEW SHELVE FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: DOVECOTE CIRCA 20 YARDS SOUTH OF NEW SHELVE FARMHOUSE, FORSTAL ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1186186
Date first listed:: 14-Dec-1984
List Entry Name:: DOVECOTE CIRCA 20 YARDS SOUTH OF NEW SHELVE FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: DOVECOTE CIRCA 20 YARDS SOUTH OF NEW SHELVE FARMHOUSE, FORSTAL ROAD

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 CIRCA 20 YARDS SOUTH OF NEW SHELVE FARMHOUSE, FORSTAL ROAD

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

County:: Kent
District:: Maidstone (District Authority)
Parish:: Lenham
National Grid Reference:: TQ 91782 51515

Details

LENHAM FORSTAL ROAD TQ 95 SW (east side)

5/155 Dovecote circa 20 yards south of New Shelve Farmhouse GV II Dovecote, possibly dual purpose, now store. 1711, altered in C19. Red brick with occasional grey headers in Flemish bond. Plain tile roof. Circular, with conical roof capped off with lead towards apex. On galletted stone plinth, with plat-band interrupted either side of door. Band of large up ended bricks round top. 2 non-aligned inserted hatches to west, one above and one below plat band. Later stable door in original door position to north side. Datestone over door. Interior: Thick plastered walls rebated to take a first floor. On ground floor, substantial central post and cross-beam carrying C19 first floor joists. On 1st floor, smaller circular central post morticed for shafts towards top and base and with metal band round top, possibly remains of a potence. Heavy tie-beam formerly spanning diameter of building, since cut through. First floor ceiled above wall-plate level, probably in C19. Plaster nesting boxes in upper area within living memory.

Listing NGR: TQ9182151487

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Legacy System number:: 173890
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.