Dovecote Approximately 80 Metres to South West of the Isle
DOVECOTE APPROXIMATELY 80 METRES TO SOUTH WEST OF THE ISLE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1366894
- Date first listed:
- 27-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Dovecote Approximately 80 Metres to South West of the Isle
- Statutory Address:
- DOVECOTE APPROXIMATELY 80 METRES TO SOUTH WEST OF THE ISLE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1366894
- Date first listed:
- 27-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Dovecote Approximately 80 Metres to South West of the Isle
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOVECOTE APPROXIMATELY 80 METRES TO SOUTH WEST OF THE ISLE
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 APPROXIMATELY 80 METRES TO SOUTH WEST OF THE ISLE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bicton
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 45909 16686
Details
BICTON C.P. - SJ 41 NE SJ 4591 1668 6/9 Dovecote approx. 80 - metres to south-west of The Isle.
GV II
Summerhouse, now dovecote. Late C17 or early C18, altered and heightened in the mid-C18. Red brick with some grey sandstone ashlar dressings. Pyramidal plain tile roof. Square plan. Plinth with moulded stone top, chamfered stone quoins (to earlier lower part only),set forward to top part, dentil brick eaves cornice, and louvred square wooden glover with pyramidal lead cap and weathervane. Boarded door to south-east with rectangular overlight and gauged-brick head; square opening for doves in later top stage above. Recessed blind or blocked window to north-west with gauged-brick head. Plastered interior with nesting boxes. Although it might have been built as a dovecote it is possible that it might initially have been built as a summerhouse. It stands in the immediate grounds of The Isle (q.v.).
Listing NGR: SJ4590916686
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 259069
- 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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