DOVECOTE AND ADJACENT PIGSTY, 10 METRES WEST OF NUMBER 4 (THE OLD HOUSE)

DOVECOTE AND ADJACENT PIGSTY, 10 METRES WEST OF NUMBER 4 (THE OLD HOUSE), BLIND LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1299314
Date first listed:: 27-Jan-1988
List Entry Name:: DOVECOTE AND ADJACENT PIGSTY, 10 METRES WEST OF NUMBER 4 (THE OLD HOUSE)
Statutory Address:: DOVECOTE AND ADJACENT PIGSTY, 10 METRES WEST OF NUMBER 4 (THE OLD HOUSE), BLIND LANE

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Date:: 2001-07-04
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1299314
Date first listed:: 27-Jan-1988
List Entry Name:: DOVECOTE AND ADJACENT PIGSTY, 10 METRES WEST OF NUMBER 4 (THE OLD HOUSE)
Statutory Address 1:: DOVECOTE AND ADJACENT PIGSTY, 10 METRES WEST OF NUMBER 4 (THE OLD HOUSE), BLIND LANE

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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Location

Statutory Address:: DOVECOTE AND ADJACENT PIGSTY, 10 METRES WEST OF NUMBER 4 (THE OLD HOUSE), BLIND LANE

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

District:: Darlington (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Hurworth
National Grid Reference:: NZ 30277 10151

Details

HURWORTH BLIND LANE NZ 3010 (West side, off)

17/70 Dovecote and adjacent pigsty, 10 metres west of No. 4 (The Old House)

GV II

1. Dovecote. Early-mid C18. Narrow brick in English garden wall bond; pantiled roof; wood glover. Square plan. Squat lower storey, defined by band, has an original boarded doorway in rebated, segmental-arched opening on right return. Upper storey has boarded doorway under segmental head, fixed 6-pane light above doorway and eaves band. Pyramidal roof with stone ridge tiles. Square-plan glover, with arched openings and 3-pane lights, has pyramidal cap surmounted by cast-iron wind vane. Interior: lower storey has 2 parallel tunnel vaults; upper storey lined with nesting boxes.

2. Pigsty with hen-house over. Late C18. Narrow brick in English garden wall bond; pantiled roof. Boarded door to hen-house on gabled front. 2-bay right return: 2 small elliptical-arched openings with rounded jambs; pig yard walls demolished. Eaves band. Steeply-pitched roof with raised verges and corbelled-out kneelers. The pigsty is situated about 5.0 metres south- west of the dovecote and is included for group value. Rebuilt wall linking pigsty to dovecote is not of special interest.

Listing NGR: NZ3027710151

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Legacy System number:: 350407
Legacy System:: LBS

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