Description

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SO 86 SW
3/107

OMBERSLEY CP
HAWFORD
CHATLEY LANE
Hawford Dovecote

(Formerly listed as HAWFORD Dovecote about 20 yards west of Hawford Grange)

14.3.69

II*

Dovecote. C16, restored late C20. Timber-framed with rendered infill on sandstone rubble plinth and cross-gabled plain tiled roof with gabled lantern. Square plan.

Framing: close-set vertical studding, three rows to tie-beam and two rows in each gable; long straight braces in lower corners. Double doors in north elevation; east elevation has a window with two wood mullions and three iron bars and above it is a blocked opening; also blocked opening in west elevation; small attic lights in each gable with single wooden mullion.

Interior: blue brick floor; about 150 nesting boxes survive on west wall and about 60 on the north wall.

The dovecote was purchased and restored by the National Trust in 1978.

Listing NGR: SO8463760653

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17548272

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Recommended Books

• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)