Dovecote About 30 Yards South East of Great House Farmhouse
DOVECOTE ABOUT 30 YARDS SOUTH EAST OF GREAT HOUSE FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1301387
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Dovecote About 30 Yards South East of Great House Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- DOVECOTE ABOUT 30 YARDS SOUTH EAST OF GREAT HOUSE FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1301387
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Dovecote About 30 Yards South East of Great House Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOVECOTE ABOUT 30 YARDS SOUTH EAST OF GREAT HOUSE FARMHOUSE
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 ABOUT 30 YARDS SOUTH EAST OF GREAT HOUSE FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ford and Stoke Prior
- National Grid Reference:
- SO5246156501
Details
SO 55 NW
2/106
11.6.59
STOKE PRIOR CP AND STOKE PRIOR (DET) CP
STOKE PRIOR
Dovecote about 30 yards south-east of Great House Farmhouse
GV
II
Dovecote. C18. Handmade-red brick with some blue brick dressings. Pyramidal
stone-tiled roof laid in diminishing courses with a timber lantern at the apex,
a continuous central alighting ledge and a pyramidal roof. Square plan. Two
levels. North-west front elevation: the openings all have cambered heads with
decorative alternate blue brick headers. Three bays; the central bay is of
greater width than the outer bays. There are two ground floor rectangular
windows with wooden bars, three blind windows above on the upper level, and
a central doorway with a chamfered frame and a ledged and battened door with
strap hinges. A doorway on the north-east side provides access to the upper
floor due to the change in ground level. Interior: there are about 450 nesting
boxes each having a pointed arched entry hole. (RCHM, Herefs, III, p 188, item 14).
Listing NGR: SO5246156501
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 149669
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire III North West, (1934), 188
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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