Description

ALDBURY STOCKS ROAD
SP 91 SE
(East side)
5/12 Stocks Dovecot
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GV II
Dovecot. '1753' in blue bricks on S front, (possibly restored in C19),
for Duncombe family as owners of Stocks Manor. Red brick with blue brick
diaper and date on S front, steep red tile roof and white weatherboarded
tiled central turret. A tall, single-storey rectangular building facing
S beside the road. Roof ridged N-S but building wider than depth.
Projecting plinth and eaves band. Central boarded door in heavy frame
with 2-light unglazed rectangular fanlight over and no arch in the
brickwork. Small 2-light unglazed windows in heavy frame set high in
middle of E side. Pilaster at E end of N wall and N and W walls plain.
Square weatherboarded turret at centre of ridge with pitched tiled roof
and 3 pidgeon openings with shelves on S end. Interior walls lined with
twin nesting boxes in brick up to eaves level. Corner posts of turret
rise from 2 beams resting on the 2 purlins. Timber lintols to inside of
door and window.

Listing NGR: SP9645713267

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26626238

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Recommended Books

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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings