DOVECOTE, CIRCA 160 METRES NORTH EAST OF NEWTON FIELD CENTRE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1192042
Date first listed:: 25-Feb-1957
List Entry Name:: DOVECOTE, CIRCA 160 METRES NORTH EAST OF NEWTON FIELD CENTRE
Statutory Address:: DOVECOTE, CIRCA 160 METRES NORTH EAST OF NEWTON FIELD CENTRE

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Date:: 2002-07-17
Reference:: IOE01/08287/03
Rights:: © Mr Michael Rockett. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1192042
Date first listed:: 25-Feb-1957
Date of most recent amendment:: 19-Jun-1992
List Entry Name:: DOVECOTE, CIRCA 160 METRES NORTH EAST OF NEWTON FIELD CENTRE
Statutory Address 1:: DOVECOTE, CIRCA 160 METRES NORTH EAST OF NEWTON FIELD CENTRE

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 160 METRES NORTH EAST OF NEWTON FIELD CENTRE

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

District:: North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Newton and Little Oakley
National Grid Reference:: SP 88560 83412

Details

NEWTON SP8883 Dovecote, circa 160 metres NE of 1337-0/12/178 Newton Field Centre 25/02/57 (Formerly Listed as: NEWTON Dovecote NE of Church of St. Faith) GV I Dovecote. Late C16/early C17. Squared coursed limestone, closely laid in tight courses, pointed to about 1 metre above ground level, then tail-bedded only. Collyweston stone slate roof gable copings with miniature gables to ends and tips, central coping ornamented with Tresham trefoils. 2 timber- framed hipped louvres to ridge. Quoins. Low entrances left and right, round- headed and chamfered, one right-hand one retaining heavy double-rebated door with huge lock, in situ on strap hinges. Left-hand one remained inside dovecote until recently, but has apparently been burnt (only scattered iron fragments from lock and hinge now survive). 2 rectangular chamfered openings at high level. Central tablet reading "MAURICE TRESHAM". Interior has thousands of L-shaped nesting boxes in 2 separate lofy chambers. An outstanding dovecote, exhibiting craftsmanship of the highest quality.

Listing NGR: SP8856083412

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Legacy System number:: 231109
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.