Dovecote at Westbury Farm
DOVECOTE AT WESTBURY FARM, SCHOOL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347104
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Dovecote at Westbury Farm
- Statutory Address:
- DOVECOTE AT WESTBURY FARM, SCHOOL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347104
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Dovecote at Westbury Farm
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOVECOTE AT WESTBURY FARM, SCHOOL LANE
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 AT WESTBURY FARM, SCHOOL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Offley
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 14147 27106
Details
OFFLEY SCHOOL LANE TL 1427 (West side) Great Offley
12/124 Dovecote at 27.5.68 Westbury Farm
GV II
Dovecote. Early C17. Timber frame on red brick sill, lower part red brick infill between main posts, upper part close-studded with narrow red brick infill panels. Steep old red tile roof hipped with large gablets formerly for entrance of doves. A tall square 2-bays structure facing N, with gablets to N and S, in middle of farmyard. Stable door in heavy frame in N side. The structure has jowled posts at each corner and in middle of E and W walls, unjowled posts in middle of N and S walls. Mid-height rail tenoned in-line and long straight tension braces notched over outsides of studs next corners. Straight braces to central truss with collar and angled queen-struts. Single clasped purlin to each slope is base for joist of top-loft with a trimmed opening on each side of collar of truss. Peg holes for fixing nest boxes around interior. Edge-halved scarf in wallplate as in farmhouse. (RCHM (1911)161: VCH (1912)39).
Listing NGR: TL1414727106
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 163134
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, A, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1912), 39
Other
Inventory of the Historical Monuments of Hertfordshire, (1910)
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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