DOVECOTE APPROXIMATELY 70 METRES SOUTH WEST OF HILLBOROUGH MANOR HOUSE

DOVECOTE APPROXIMATELY 70 METRES SOUTH WEST OF HILLBOROUGH MANOR HOUSE, HILLBOROUGH

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1382783
Date first listed:: 06-Feb-1952
List Entry Name:: DOVECOTE APPROXIMATELY 70 METRES SOUTH WEST OF HILLBOROUGH MANOR HOUSE
Statutory Address:: DOVECOTE APPROXIMATELY 70 METRES SOUTH WEST OF HILLBOROUGH MANOR HOUSE, HILLBOROUGH

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1382783
Date first listed:: 06-Feb-1952
List Entry Name:: DOVECOTE APPROXIMATELY 70 METRES SOUTH WEST OF HILLBOROUGH MANOR HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: DOVECOTE APPROXIMATELY 70 METRES SOUTH WEST OF HILLBOROUGH MANOR HOUSE, HILLBOROUGH

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: DOVECOTE APPROXIMATELY 70 METRES SOUTH WEST OF HILLBOROUGH MANOR HOUSE, HILLBOROUGH

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

County:: Warwickshire
District:: Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
Parish:: Temple Grafton
National Grid Reference:: SP 12675 52032

Details

TEMPLE GRAFTON

SP15SW HILLBOROUGH 1931-1/3/104 Dovecote approx. 70m south-west of 06/02/52 Hillborough Manor House (Formerly Listed as: Dovecote at Hillborough Manor)

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Formerly known as: Pigeon House Hillborough. Dovecote. Probably C17 or earlier. Narrow coursed blue lias rubble with some wide courses; conical tile roof. Circular plan, 7.5m in diameter. EXTERIOR: low entrance to north has heavy frame to C20 wide-boarded door; lantern has conical roof with weather-vane. INTERIOR: walls lined with stone nesting boxes and ledges; central inserted brick pier; noted as having 900 nesting boxes and 1m thick walls. (Victoria County Histories: Styles P: Victoria History of the County of Warwickshire: 1945-: 94-6; Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-: 433; Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society: Beacham MJA: Dovecotes in England: An introduction and gazetteer: 1990-: 85-131).

Listing NGR: SP1267552032

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 483169
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 433
Styles, P, The Victoria History of the County of Warwickshire, (1945), 94-96
Beacham, M J A, 'Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society' in Dovecotes In England: An Introduction And Gazeteer, (1990), 85-131

Legal

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