DOVECOTE AT HALL FARM, LOFTS HALL

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1238148
Date first listed:: 21-Feb-1967
List Entry Name:: DOVECOTE AT HALL FARM, LOFTS HALL
Statutory Address:: DOVECOTE AT HALL FARM, LOFTS HALL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1238148
Date first listed:: 21-Feb-1967
Date of most recent amendment:: 22-Feb-1980
List Entry Name:: DOVECOTE AT HALL FARM, LOFTS HALL
Statutory Address 1:: DOVECOTE AT HALL FARM, LOFTS HALL

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 AT HALL FARM, LOFTS HALL

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

County:: Essex
District:: Uttlesford (District Authority)
Parish:: Wenden Lofts
National Grid Reference:: TL 46444 38721

Details

WENDEN LOFTS 1. 5222 Dovecote at Hall Farm, Lofts Hall (formerly listed as Dovecote at the Home Farm, Lofts Hall) TL 43 NE 10/771 21.2.67

II*

2. Fine large octagonal red brick cote possibly of C16 origin but with mainly C13 features. It is said to be the largest and finest in the county, with about 1,500 nests. On the west side there is a small door and on the south side a hipped dormer. Roof tiled, with an octagonal louvre with a tiled roof.

Listing NGR: TL4644438721

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 415532
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

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