Dovecote Approximately 50 Metres South of Old Place Yard House
DOVECOTE APPROXIMATELY 50 METRES SOUTH OF OLD PLACE YARD HOUSE, OLD PLACE YARD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200488
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Dovecote Approximately 50 Metres South of Old Place Yard House
- Statutory Address:
- DOVECOTE APPROXIMATELY 50 METRES SOUTH OF OLD PLACE YARD HOUSE, OLD PLACE YARD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200488
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Dovecote Approximately 50 Metres South of Old Place Yard House
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOVECOTE APPROXIMATELY 50 METRES SOUTH OF OLD PLACE YARD HOUSE, OLD PLACE YARD
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 50 METRES SOUTH OF OLD PLACE YARD HOUSE, OLD PLACE YARD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bicester
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 58333 22193
Details
BICESTER OLD PLACE YARD 5P58225 ' 3/95 Dovecote approx. 50m. S of Old 31/01/52 Place Yard House (Formerly listed as "Old Palace Yard" and dovecote in Palace Yard" and dovecote in the grounds, Palace Yard) GV II
Dovecote. Probably C17, altered C20. Limestone rubble with squared quoins and some brick; old plain tile roof. Square plan. Slightly-battered walls rise from a rubble plinth with double-stepped brick weatherings, and the upper stage has small scattered C20 openings. Front has a central doorway plus an upper door, now reached by a C20 concrete external stair. Pyramid roof has boxed eaves and a perspex finial light. Interior: rubble walls are lined with nesting boxes and have projecting stone ledges every third row; roof rebuilt C20. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.455).
Listing NGR: SP5833322193
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 243570
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 455
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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