Dovecot at Blackford Farm
DOVECOT AT BLACKFORD FARM
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1345406
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1969
- Statutory Address:
- DOVECOT AT BLACKFORD FARM
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- Date:
- 2001-08-28
- Reference:
- IOE01/03660/24
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1345406
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1969
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOVECOT AT BLACKFORD FARM
Location
- Statutory Address:
- DOVECOT AT BLACKFORD FARM
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Selworthy
- National Park:
- Exmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SS9247445282
Details
SS94NW SELWORTHY CP
BLACKFORD
4/75
Dovecot at Blackford Farm
22.5.69
- II*
Dovecot. Late medieval. Coursed random rubble, partly roughcast, conical stone roof rising from moulded cornice, open
in centre. Circular in plan. Square headed plank door with renewed brick lintel. Interior: 11 tiers of irregularly
spaced nesting boxes rising to eaves level, said to number 302 in all. No evidence of a potence or other interior
features. The manorhouse at Blackford was destroyed by fire in 1875 and the dovecot was aquired by the National Trust
in 1944. Scheduled Ancient Monument (Somerset County No 207). (Chadwyck-Healey, The History of the Part of West
Somerset, 190l; Ridler, A Selworthy Notebook, 1983).
Listing NGR: SS9247445282
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 265489
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ridler, , A Selworthy Notebook, (1983)
Healey, C, The History of the Part of West Somerset, (1901)
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