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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- 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
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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.
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 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)
GV II
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
Styles, P, The Victoria History of the County of Warwickshire, (1945), 94-96
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 433
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.
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