Barnburgh Hall Dovecote
BARNBURGH HALL DOVECOTE, HALL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1314757
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Barnburgh Hall Dovecote
- Statutory Address:
- BARNBURGH HALL DOVECOTE, HALL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1314757
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Barnburgh Hall Dovecote
- Statutory Address 1:
- BARNBURGH HALL DOVECOTE, HALL STREET
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:
- BARNBURGH HALL DOVECOTE, HALL STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Doncaster (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Barnburgh
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 48677 03332
Details
SE40SE BARNBURGH HALL STREET (east side, off) 6/15 Barnburgh Hall 5.6.68 Dovecote
GV II*
Dovecote. Probably late C16 - early C17 and for the More family of Barnburgh Hall. Thinly-coursed rubble limestone, ashlar dressings and lantern, stone slate roof. Octagonal. Large quoins, chamfered plinth band. Doorway in north side has chamfered jambs and Tudor-arched lintel with triangular extrados. Continuous lst-floor dripmould beneath small double-chamfered, 2-light mullioned window with remains of latticed iron casement. Similar windows on alternate faces, one without mullion. Chamfered oversailing band beneath eaves. Hipped roof with octagonal lantern having plain stone pillars to hipped ashlar roof.
Interior: ashlar piers to each internal angle dividing nesting holes said to number 1,600. Central wood post with cross braces for resting ladder on. Conical stone- vaulted roof. Barnburgh Hall was demolished in 1970. The dovecote is well-preserved and is an exceptional structure of the region.
Rev. W. J. Parker, The Cresacre Treasure, The Church and Village of Barnburgh, undated booklet, p.28 (plate).
Listing NGR: SE4867703332
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 334436
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Parker, W J, The Cresacre Treasure, The Church and Village of Barnburgh, (), 28
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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