DOVECOTE NORTH OF BUNKERSHILL

DOVECOTE NORTH OF BUNKERSHILL, ORTON ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1335631
Date first listed:: 22-Dec-1976
List Entry Name:: DOVECOTE NORTH OF BUNKERSHILL
Statutory Address:: DOVECOTE NORTH OF BUNKERSHILL, ORTON ROAD

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Date:: 2002-09-17
Reference:: IOE01/08710/34
Rights:: © Mr James Sinclair. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1335631
Date first listed:: 22-Dec-1976
List Entry Name:: DOVECOTE NORTH OF BUNKERSHILL
Statutory Address 1:: DOVECOTE NORTH OF BUNKERSHILL, ORTON ROAD

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 NORTH OF BUNKERSHILL, ORTON ROAD

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

District:: Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Beaumont
National Grid Reference:: NY 36716 54733

Details

NY 35 SE BEAUMONT ORTON ROAD (North Side) Carlisle 8/28 Dovecote north of Bunkershill

22/12/76 II

Former Dovecote. Late C18 or early C19. Mixed river cobbles and red sandstone rubble, graduated Welsh slate roof and glover. 2 storeys, circular plan. Plank doors on ground floor and loft to rear. Roof re-slated in early 1970s, glover with louvred wooden slats. Interior retains its original brick boulins for approximately 500 nests. See Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, old series, ix, pp424-5.

Listing NGR: NY3671654733

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Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society' in Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, , Vol. 9, (), 424-5

Legal

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