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Dovecote Attached to Farm Buildings at Manston Hall Farm

A Grade II Listed Building in Cross Gates and Whinmoor, Leeds

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.8057 / 53°48'20"N

Longitude: -1.4261 / 1°25'33"W

OS Eastings: 437891

OS Northings: 434526

OS Grid: SE378345

Mapcode National: GBR LSHF.1J

Mapcode Global: WHDBL.2L5W

Plus Code: 9C5WRH4F+7H

Entry Name: Dovecote Attached to Farm Buildings at Manston Hall Farm

Listing Date: 22 April 1996

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1375155

English Heritage Legacy ID: 466037

ID on this website: 101375155

Location: Penda's Fields, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS15

County: Leeds

Electoral Ward/Division: Cross Gates and Whinmoor

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Leeds

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire

Church of England Parish: Manston St James

Church of England Diocese: Leeds

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Description


SE33SW
714-1/12/1317
22/04/96

LEEDS
MANSTON LANE, Austhorpe
(North side)
Dovecote attached to farm buildings at Manston Hall Farm

II

Dovecote. c1500 with C17 and early C19 and early C20
alterations. Coursed dressed stone and orange brick with stone
slate roof. Square plan, originally with pyramidal roof.
South, Manston Lane front has large quoins at base of wall.
Single central inserted opening with brick segment head, now
boarded.
Left return abuts later farmbuilding.
Right return, east gable wall blank with early C19 brick
gable, open at apex.
North wall, hidden by attached farmbuilding has doorway at
left.
INTERIOR: has rows of stone nest boxes to all the walls, the
north wall has had the upper boxes re-built in brick. Roof has
two early C20 wooden trusses with king posts and diagonal
queen struts.
This is a rare example of a late medieval dovecote.

Listing NGR: SE3789134526

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