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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Official list entry

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

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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Corrections and minor amendments

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

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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.