Pigeon House Within Walled Garden at Rossway Home Farm

PIGEON HOUSE WITHIN WALLED GARDEN AT ROSSWAY HOME FARM, ROSSWAY

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1342218
Date first listed:
29-May-1986
List Entry Name:
Pigeon House Within Walled Garden at Rossway Home Farm
Statutory Address:
PIGEON HOUSE WITHIN WALLED GARDEN AT ROSSWAY HOME FARM, ROSSWAY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1342218
Date first listed:
29-May-1986
Date of most recent amendment:
08-May-1996
List Entry Name:
Pigeon House Within Walled Garden at Rossway Home Farm
Statutory Address 1:
PIGEON HOUSE WITHIN WALLED GARDEN AT ROSSWAY HOME FARM, ROSSWAY

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
PIGEON HOUSE WITHIN WALLED GARDEN AT ROSSWAY HOME FARM, ROSSWAY

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

County:
Hertfordshire
District:
Dacorum (District Authority)
Parish:
Wigginton
National Grid Reference:
SP9583607214

Details

SP 90 NE
1598-/7/168
29.05.86

WIGGINTON
ROSSWAY
Pigeon House within walled garden at Rossway Home Farm
(formerly listed as Pigeon House in S yard at Rossway Home Farm)


GV II

Pigeon House. Early C19, rebuilt and relocated in 1994-5. Timber-framed structure, set upon a C20 brick plinth, and clad with white weatherboarding with roll-moulded lower board edges. Hipped slate roof topped by large square weatherboarded cupola with pyramidal slate roof and large bulbous finial. Tall, 2-store:red building, square on plan. The cupola has 2 shelves with pigeon holes between. Door with fanlight to upper part. The structure formerly stood in the south yard to, Rossway Home Farm facing the east entrance, and was re-erected and repaired on its' present site in 1994-5.

Listing NGR: SP9583607214

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
355805
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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