Dovecote Approximately 30 Metres West of Dovecote Farmhouse
DOVECOTE APPROXIMATELY 30 METRES WEST OF DOVECOTE FARMHOUSE, NORTH ASTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1266204
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Dovecote Approximately 30 Metres West of Dovecote Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- DOVECOTE APPROXIMATELY 30 METRES WEST OF DOVECOTE FARMHOUSE, NORTH ASTON ROAD
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- Date:
- 2002-09-29
- Reference:
- IOE01/08133/10
- Rights:
- © Mr Alistair F Nisbet. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1266204
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Dovecote Approximately 30 Metres West of Dovecote Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOVECOTE APPROXIMATELY 30 METRES WEST OF DOVECOTE FARMHOUSE, NORTH ASTON ROAD
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 30 METRES WEST OF DOVECOTE FARMHOUSE, NORTH ASTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Somerton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 49772 28718
Details
SOMERTON NORTH ASTON ROAD SP42NE (South side) 2/91 Dovecote approx. 30m W of 26/11/51 Dovecote Farmhouse (Formerly listed as Dovecote at Dovecote Farm) GV II
Dovecote. 1719 recorded as on datestone. Coursed squared limestone; Stonesfield-slate roof. Square plan. Front has a low doorway, with a plank door and heavy wooden lintel, and has an ashlar band; all 4 sides have a narrow rectangular opening in a gable, but the front also has a datestone with an inscription in an oval recess, now virtually illegible. The central wooden glover is surmounted by a weathervane. Interior: The walls are lined with over 1000 brick nesting boxes separated by stone ledges; the roof retains original cross beams. (VCH: Oxfordshire, Vol VI, p291)
Listing NGR: SP4977228718
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 422210
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1962), 291
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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