Dovecote 100 Metres South East of Holfield Grange
DOVECOTE 100 METRES SOUTH EAST OF HOLFIELD GRANGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1337922
- Date first listed:
- 06-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Dovecote 100 Metres South East of Holfield Grange
- Statutory Address:
- DOVECOTE 100 METRES SOUTH EAST OF HOLFIELD GRANGE
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- Reference:
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- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1337922
- Date first listed:
- 06-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Dovecote 100 Metres South East of Holfield Grange
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOVECOTE 100 METRES SOUTH EAST OF HOLFIELD GRANGE
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 100 METRES SOUTH EAST OF HOLFIELD GRANGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Coggeshall
- National Grid Reference:
- TL8322023279
Details
TL 82 SW
5/3
COGGESHALL
Dovecote 100 metres
south-east of Holfield
Grange
II
Dovecote and stables. C18. Red brick in Flemish bond, roofed with handmade red
plain tiles. Square plan with entrance to NE. 2 storeys. NE elevation, ground
floor, 2 C19 casements with segmental arches, and central stable door with
lintel. First floor, door to dovecote with overlight of 6 panes. SW elevation,
Large imitation window with 2-centred head and imitation glazing bars painted on
plaster. Moulded wooden eaves cornice. Pyramidal roof with leaded hips.
Square cupola with lead ogee roof and dentilled wooden cornice, and lead pigeon
on roof. The ground floor is divided into 2 stables, boarded all round to a
height of approximately 2 metres, the central partition boarded to a height of
approximately 1.20 metres, with a wrought iron grill above. In each stable is
an attached C19 cast iron corner fixture comprising a combined water trough and
feed rack. The dovecote occupies the upper floor, with an internal vertical
ladder to it. The nesting boxes are complete, approximately 90 on the NW side,
90 on the SE side and 120 on the SW side, made of brick with alighting racks of
wood. Others added at eaves level. The roof and pigeon entry are complete and
original; the stables may have been inserted in the C19. Shown on tithe map of
1853, Great Coggeshall (Essex Record Office, D/CT 87).
Listing NGR: TL8322023279
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 116034
- 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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