DOVECOTE 10 METRES NORTH WEST OF MELPLASH COURT

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1215869
Date first listed:: 31-Jul-1984
List Entry Name:: DOVECOTE 10 METRES NORTH WEST OF MELPLASH COURT
Statutory Address:: DOVECOTE 10 METRES NORTH WEST OF MELPLASH COURT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1215869
Date first listed:: 31-Jul-1984
List Entry Name:: DOVECOTE 10 METRES NORTH WEST OF MELPLASH COURT
Statutory Address 1:: DOVECOTE 10 METRES NORTH WEST OF MELPLASH COURT

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: DOVECOTE 10 METRES NORTH WEST OF MELPLASH COURT

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

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Netherbury
National Grid Reference:: SY 48326 98473

Details

SY 49 NE NETHERBURY MELPLASH

7/133 Dovecote 10 metres north-west of Melplash Court

GV II*

Dovecote. C17. circular, with coursed rubble stone walls and much worn pointing. Conical stone slate roof with open louvre at the top, with its own small conical cap. Entrance to dovecote, on south-east with a square head, plank door. Interior: rebuilt roof construction, pigeon-holes from 3 foot above ground to the eaves. Source: R.C.H.M. Dorset I, p 173(3).

Listing NGR: SY4832698473

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 401166
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset I West, (1952), 173

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.