Dovecote remains at Pipe Ridware Hall and attached wall to the north
Dovecote remains at Pipe Ridware Hall and attached wall to the north, Pipe Ridware
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1249107
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Dovecote remains at Pipe Ridware Hall and attached wall to the north
- Statutory Address:
- Dovecote remains at Pipe Ridware Hall and attached wall to the north, Pipe Ridware
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1249107
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Dovecote remains at Pipe Ridware Hall and attached wall to the north
- Statutory Address 1:
- Dovecote remains at Pipe Ridware Hall and attached wall to the north, Pipe Ridware
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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 remains at Pipe Ridware Hall and attached wall to the north, Pipe Ridware
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Lichfield (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Mavesyn Ridware
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 09606 17494
Details
SK 01 NE
6/117
MAVESYN RIDWARE C.P.
PIPE RIDWARE
Dovecote remains at Pipe Ridware Hall and attached wall to the north
GV
II
Dovecote remains and wall. C16/C17. Red brick with sandstone ashlar dressings; flat corrugated iron roof. Hexagonal plan. Coped plinth, moulded cornice and upper windows with rectangular chamfered surrounds. A coped brick wall is attached to the north and formerly formed one side of a walled garden which surrounded the now demolished timber framed mansion of Pipe Ridware Hall.
Interior: the walls of the dovecote are lined with individual nesting boxes. The dovecote is in a derelict condition, two sides have been demolished and the original pitched roof has gone.
A late C18 drawing of the site made shortly before the demolition of the house appears in Stebbing Shaw, The History and Antiquities of Staffordshire vol. 1 (1798) p.161.
Listing NGR: SK0960617494
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 430720
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Shaw, Stebbing, The History and Antiquities of Staffordshire, (1798), 161
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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