DOVECOTE ABOUT 20 YARDS NORTH OF HELLENS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1303025
Date first listed:: 18-Nov-1952
List Entry Name:: DOVECOTE ABOUT 20 YARDS NORTH OF HELLENS
Statutory Address:: DOVECOTE ABOUT 20 YARDS NORTH OF HELLENS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1303025
Date first listed:: 18-Nov-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 04-Dec-1985
List Entry Name:: DOVECOTE ABOUT 20 YARDS NORTH OF HELLENS
Statutory Address 1:: DOVECOTE ABOUT 20 YARDS NORTH OF HELLENS

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 ABOUT 20 YARDS NORTH OF HELLENS

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

District:: County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Much Marcle
National Grid Reference:: SO 66144 33269

Details

MUCH MARCLE CP - SO 63 SE

8/54 Dovecote about 20 yards north of Hellens (formerly 18.11.52 listed as Hellens with Dovecote)

GV II*

Dovecote. "1641/ W / FM " on west side. Brick, plaster quoins and string courses, tiled roof and wooden glover. Octagonal. Two almost continuous string courses, square and diamond patterns in brickwork, chamfered 4-centred doorway to south side above which is an inserted C18 or early C19 segmentally- headed window which interrupts the lower string course. Interior: remains of bottom part of potence; about 20 rows of sawn-off tenons indicate that there were projecting nesting ledges rather than hollowed-out nests. (RCHM Vol II, p 131).

Listing NGR: SO6614433269

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Legacy System number:: 152719
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Inventory of Herefordshire II East, (1932), 131

Legal

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