Dovecote
DOVECOTE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1323717
- Date first listed:
- 27-Apr-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Dovecote
- Statutory Address:
- DOVECOTE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1323717
- Date first listed:
- 27-Apr-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Dovecote
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOVECOTE
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Wyre (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Eccleston
- National Grid Reference:
- SD4258740044
Details
SD 44 SW GREAT ECCLESTONE
281/5/10001 Dovecote
II
Dovecote. Late C18, with late C20 replacement of roof structure. Red brick, with tile rat course at mid- wall level, and a Welsh-slated pyramidal roof with a square ogee-roofed cupola.
Square plan, with doorway to east side and a window above, both with shallow segmental brick arches. Studded plank door, hung from straps set on pins attached to ashlar sandstone blocks set into doorway jambs. Blocked overlight to door head. At door head level, and extending around all elevations, a double course of tiles form a rat course'.
INTERIOR: Each wall contains 10 rows of nesting boxes, 9 boxes to each row, although internal alterations have damaged some areas. The lower part was latterly used to stall animals.
Listing NGR: SD4258740044
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469242
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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