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Pigeon/Poultry House West of High Farmhouse

A Grade II Listed Building in Dacre, Cumbria

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Coordinates

Latitude: 54.685 / 54°41'5"N

Longitude: -2.8461 / 2°50'45"W

OS Eastings: 345551

OS Northings: 532542

OS Grid: NY455325

Mapcode National: GBR 8GK8.MB

Mapcode Global: WH813.7HZS

Plus Code: 9C6VM5M3+XH

Entry Name: Pigeon/Poultry House West of High Farmhouse

Listing Date: 24 October 1986

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1221078

English Heritage Legacy ID: 73771

ID on this website: 101221078

Location: Great Blencow, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, CA11

County: Cumbria

District: Eden

Town: Eden

Civil Parish: Dacre

Traditional County: Cumberland

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cumbria

Church of England Parish: Dacre St Andrew

Church of England Diocese: Carlisle

Tagged with: Dovecote

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Description


NY 43 SE DACRE GREAT BLENCOW

13/52 Pigeon/poultry house
west of High
Farmhouse

G.V. II


Pigeon/poultry house. Dated and inscribed over entrance W.T. 1789 (William
Troutbeck). Pink sandstone rubble walls, with eaves cornice and V-jointed
quoins, under pyramidal roof with sandstone hips. 2 storeys, single bay with
right lower single-storey, one-bay poultry house. Alternate-block surround
doorway with keyed lintel and right oval opening. Left oval window is now
lost. Pigeon opening is a Diocletian window on projecting sill with scrolled
brackets. Poultry house has stone-surround doorway and small square openings.
Interior has been partly converted as a byre but is now disused. The
upper floor is complete with all its brick boulins. See Transactions Cumberland
& Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, old series, ix, pp.429-30.


Listing NGR: NY4555132542

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