Description

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SE 61 NW
2/4

FENWICK
LAWN LANE (east end)
Dovecote and attached outbuilding on west side of farmyard at Riddings Farm

GV
II

Dovecote and attached outbuilding. Late C18 of two builds. Red brick in English garden wall bond, stone slate eaves courses to pantile roof. Three and two storeys: 1: 4: 1 bays, the right end bay of later date. Three-storey, single-cell dovecote at north end of range has windows to ground and first floor on west side with blocked pigeon holes to upper storey; eaves band; shaped kneelers and gable copings. Four-bay part to right has segmentally-arched doorway and scattered fenestration of casements and has two boarded hatches. End bay to right with doorway on left of casements to each floor, blocked doorway to first floor on right. Shaped kneelers and gable copings on right, brick ridge stack. Rear: external steps to the dovecote.

Interior: principal-rafter trusses with raking queen struts; remains of nesting holes in dovecote.

Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SE6049416388

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26444501

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)