DOVECOTE 20 METRES SOUTH-EAST OF LINDEN HOUSE, AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALLS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1370570
Date first listed:: 24-May-1988
List Entry Name:: DOVECOTE 20 METRES SOUTH-EAST OF LINDEN HOUSE, AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALLS
Statutory Address:: DOVECOTE 20 METRES SOUTH-EAST OF LINDEN HOUSE, AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALLS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1370570
Date first listed:: 24-May-1988
List Entry Name:: DOVECOTE 20 METRES SOUTH-EAST OF LINDEN HOUSE, AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALLS
Statutory Address 1:: DOVECOTE 20 METRES SOUTH-EAST OF LINDEN HOUSE, AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALLS

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: DOVECOTE 20 METRES SOUTH-EAST OF LINDEN HOUSE, AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALLS

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Humshaugh
National Grid Reference:: NY 91834 71408

Details

HUMSHAUGH HUMSHAUGH VILLAGE NY 9171 (South side)

12/256 Dovecote 20 metres south-east of Linden House, and attached garden walls

GV II

Dovecote and garden walls, mid-C18. External elevations rubble with roughly- shaped quoins; internal elevations brick in irregular stretcher bond; cut dressings; dovecote roof Welsh slate with wooden turret. South elevation of dovecote: altered flush-panelled door in chamfered stone surround. Coped gables, square turret on ridge with 3 round-headed pigeon holes, pyramidal cap and weathervane. Left return shows blocked window with stone lintel. Right return shows boarded doors at 2 levels, the upper pierced by pigeon holes.

Garden wall linking north-west corner of dovecote with south-east corner of Linden House (q.v.) has flat coping and boarded door in chamfered surround. Garden wall running from south-east corner of dovecote to ha-ha wall, (q.v.) contains boarded door with tooled-and-margined lintel and is patched and heightened in stone. Attached farmbuildings to rear not of interest.

Listing NGR: NY9183471408

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Legacy System number:: 240015
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.