Dovecote, 80m south-east of Pumphouse Farmhouse
Pumphouse Lane, Hanbury, Droitwich, Worcestershire, WR9 7EB
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1350163
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Dovecote, 80m south-east of Pumphouse Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- Pumphouse Lane, Hanbury, Droitwich, Worcestershire, WR9 7EB
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1350163
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Dec-2017
- List Entry Name:
- Dovecote, 80m south-east of Pumphouse Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- Pumphouse Lane, Hanbury, Droitwich, Worcestershire, WR9 7EB
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:
- Pumphouse Lane, Hanbury, Droitwich, Worcestershire, WR9 7EB
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Wychavon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hanbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SO9550463185
Summary
Dovecote, dated to the early C17.
Reasons for Designation
The dovecote at Pumphouse Farm, which dates from the early C17, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
Architectural interest:
* As a well-preserved example which retains key elements, such as the nesting boxes and alighting ledges, that reflect the building’s original function;
* For the decorative role it also fulfilled as an eyecatcher in the landscape.
Group value:
* Although located apart from Pumphouse Farm, it has strong group value, forming part of an historic ensemble with the Grade II listed farmhouse and agricultural buildings.
History
Dovecotes are specialised structures designed for the breeding and keeping of doves as a source of food and as a symbol of high social status. Most surviving examples were built in the period between the C14 and the C17, although earlier and later examples are documented.
The dovecote at Pumphouse Farm is situated in an elevated position, on rising ground some 80m to the south-east of the farmhouse (Grade II). It dates from the early C17 and appears to have been constructed around the same time as the earliest part of the house. Pumphouse Farm is understood to have once been part of the estate of the Vernon family who lived at Hanbury Hall to the north-west (see SOURCES). The dovecote is depicted on historic Ordnance Survey maps, and is marked as ‘Pigeon House’ on the map published in 1885.
Details
Dovecote, dated to the early C17.
MATERIALS: timber-framed construction with red brick infill and a plain tiled roof.
PLAN: the building is square in plan.
EXTERIOR: tall structure on a high brick plinth. The framing comprises three, roughly-square panels between the sill and the wall-plate and tie-beam trusses exposed in the north-west and south-east gable ends; one with four struts above the tie beam and the other has a V-strut. There is a small plank timber door with strap hinges set within a reduced opening in the plinth on the north-west side. Set high in the gable above is a small, rectangular two-light opening with a V-strut above the lintel. The roof is surmounted by a wooden, gabled flight lantern which has alighting ledges and entry holes to each side.
INTERIOR: although at the time of updating this List Entry it was not possible to inspect the interior (2017), the walls are lined with approximately 250 L-shaped, timber nesting boxes without alighting ledges.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 147790
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
A History of the County of Worcester: Volume 3 (1913), pp. 372-380. British History Online, accessed 16 October 2017 from http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/worcs/vol3/pp372-380
Worcestershire and Worcester City HER, Reference: WSM 02192, Dovecote at Pumphouse Farm, Hanbury, accessed 16 October 2017 from https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MWR10738&resourceID=1035
Other
Pumphouse Farm, Hanbury, North Worcestershire, Sales Particulars, 2016
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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