Dovecote in Churchyard North of Church of St Kentigern
DOVECOTE IN CHURCHYARD NORTH OF CHURCH OF ST KENTIGERN, KING STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1234951
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Dovecote in Churchyard North of Church of St Kentigern
- Statutory Address:
- DOVECOTE IN CHURCHYARD NORTH OF CHURCH OF ST KENTIGERN, KING STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1234951
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Dovecote in Churchyard North of Church of St Kentigern
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOVECOTE IN CHURCHYARD NORTH OF CHURCH OF ST KENTIGERN, KING STREET
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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 IN CHURCHYARD NORTH OF CHURCH OF ST KENTIGERN, KING STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Aspatria
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 14739 41964
Details
NY 14 SW ASPATRIA KING STREET Aspatria
7/20 Dovecote in churchyard north of Church of St Kentigern
II
Dovecote now churchyard store. Probably C17. Whitewashed red sandstone walls under greenslate roof with sandstone hips. Square; single storey. Plank door at side in plain altered opening. Stone shelf halfway up front wall. No other opening except open gablets in roof. Interior thought to retain some boulins. Behind vicarage and would have been in the vicarage garden, but now within extended C20 churchyard. See Transactions Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, old series, ix, pp.428-9.
Listing NGR: NY1473941964
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 410428
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society in Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, (), 428-9
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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