Dovecote Approximately 60 Metres to West of Lea Hall
DOVECOTE APPROXIMATELY 60 METRES TO WEST OF LEA HALL, A 528
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1366924
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Dovecote Approximately 60 Metres to West of Lea Hall
- Statutory Address:
- DOVECOTE APPROXIMATELY 60 METRES TO WEST OF LEA HALL, A 528
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1366924
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Dovecote Approximately 60 Metres to West of Lea Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOVECOTE APPROXIMATELY 60 METRES TO WEST OF LEA HALL, A 528
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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 60 METRES TO WEST OF LEA HALL, A 528
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bomere Heath and District
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 49224 21040
Details
BOMERE HEATH C.P. A528 (east side) SJ 42 SE 3/56 Dovecote approx. 60 29.1.52 metres to west of Lea Hall (formerly listed as Lea Hall Dovecote)
GV II*
Dovecote. Circa 1584. Red brick with blue brick diaper work. Pyramidal stone slate roof. Octagonal plan. Chamfered grey sandstone plinth (restored in red sandstone), toothed-brick cornice to raised eaves band, and small wooden glover with round-arched openings and pyramidal lead cap with weathervane. Small chamfered rectangular window to east and small boarded door below with red sandstone lintel. Interior: approximate- ly 300 brick resting boxes in walls with continuous brick ledges beneath. Central wooden potence with braced horizontal spars at top and bottom supporting ladder at ends. Lea Hall (q.v.) is dated 1584 and the dove- cote was probably built at about the same time.
Listing NGR: SJ4922421040
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 259117
- 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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