Dovecote and Attached Mounting Block at Entrance to Rectory
DOVECOTE AND ATTACHED MOUNTING BLOCK AT ENTRANCE TO RECTORY, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271172
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Dovecote and Attached Mounting Block at Entrance to Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- DOVECOTE AND ATTACHED MOUNTING BLOCK AT ENTRANCE TO RECTORY, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271172
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Dovecote and Attached Mounting Block at Entrance to Rectory
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOVECOTE AND ATTACHED MOUNTING BLOCK AT ENTRANCE TO RECTORY, CHURCH LANE
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 AND ATTACHED MOUNTING BLOCK AT ENTRANCE TO RECTORY, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Nottingham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK5666737748
Details
SK53NE
646-1/7/809
NOTTINGHAM
CHURCH LANE, Wilford
(East side)
Dovecote and attached mounting block at entrance to Rectory
GV
II
Dovecote and attached mounting block. c1720. For the Rev.
Benjamin Carter, rector 1694-1733, builder of the rectory
(qv). Restored 1980. Red brick, with plain tile and pantile
roof and coped gables with brick kneelers. Single storey,
square plan. Central plank door in beaded frame. Flight holes
probably blocked at restoration. To left, square mounting
block, brick, with steps and stone slab top.
INTERIOR has restored gypsum plaster and brick nest boxes.
Inscribed plaque attached to building.
(Wilford Church Guide: Wright A: Wilford: 1978-; Dovecotes of
Nottinghamshire: Severn J: Cromwell, Notts.: 1986-).
Listing NGR: SK5666737748
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 455824
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Wright, A, Wilford Church Guide, (1978)
Severn, J, Dovecotes of Nottinghamshire, (1986)
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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