Dovecote About 30 Metres North West of Luntley Court
DOVECOTE ABOUT 30 METRES NORTH WEST OF LUNTLEY COURT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1349818
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Dovecote About 30 Metres North West of Luntley Court
- Statutory Address:
- DOVECOTE ABOUT 30 METRES NORTH WEST OF LUNTLEY COURT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1349818
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Dovecote About 30 Metres North West of Luntley Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOVECOTE ABOUT 30 METRES NORTH WEST OF LUNTLEY COURT
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 ABOUT 30 METRES NORTH WEST OF LUNTLEY COURT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Dilwyn
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 39284 55742
Details
SO 35 NE DILWYN CP LUNTLEY
3/35 Dovecote about 30 metres north-west of Luntley Court 20.2.53
GV II
Dovecpte. Dated 1673, with some C20 alterations. Timber-frame with rendered infill on a rubble plinth with a felt roof. Gabled in all four directions. Square plan. Two storeys with small openings in gables. Main entrance in east wall has a shaped doorhead bearing the incised date."1673". The C17 boarded door has decorative strap hinges. The roof is capped by a glover, also gabled on all four sides. The framing is four square panels high with straight tension braces. The trusses each have two collars with multiple struts and curved V-struts in the apex. The bargeboards are carved and have pendant finials. The projecting wall-plates each have carved brackets. At time of survey (1987) the south-west corner was supported by timber shores. (RCHM, 3, p to: BoE, p 112).
Listing NGR: SO3928455742
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 149817
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire III North West, (1934), 40
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, (1963), 112
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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