Dovecote in Farmyrad of Abbey Bridge Farm

DOVECOTE IN FARMYRAD OF ABBEY BRIDGE FARM, COLONEL'S LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1372056
Date first listed:
07-Aug-1986
List Entry Name:
Dovecote in Farmyrad of Abbey Bridge Farm
Statutory Address:
DOVECOTE IN FARMYRAD OF ABBEY BRIDGE FARM, COLONEL'S LANE
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Date:
1999-09-10
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1372056
Date first listed:
07-Aug-1986
Date of most recent amendment:
20-Feb-1995
List Entry Name:
Dovecote in Farmyrad of Abbey Bridge Farm
Statutory Address 1:
DOVECOTE IN FARMYRAD OF ABBEY BRIDGE FARM, COLONEL'S LANE

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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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
DOVECOTE IN FARMYRAD OF ABBEY BRIDGE FARM, COLONEL'S LANE

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

County:
Surrey
District:
Runnymede (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TQ 04378 67229

Details

STAINES LANE TQ 043673 CHERTSEY 7/164 Dovecote in garden of Burley Orchard GV II shall be replaced by:- COLONEL'S LANE TQ 0467 SW CHERTSEY 7/164 Dovecote in farmyard of Abbey Bridge Farm GV II

Dovecote. C1880. Cast iron and wood. Cast iron fluted composite column had brackets which support a rectangular dovecote with gabled roof. Four tiers of entrance holes with landing edges. Tiled roof. The gable end and sides are hung with fishscale tiles. Along the top of the dovecote is a row of projecting metal flowers. Until 1991 this structure stood off Staines Lane in the garden of the iron founder William Herring whose foundry presumably manufactured it.

This building was previously listed at Staines Lane in this Parish but was dismantled, rebuilt and resited in Colonel's Lane.



Listing NGR: TQ0437867229

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
361741
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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