HISTORY - DOVECOTE

 

 

Building Name: DOVECOTE

Parish: GREAT ECCLESTON

District: WYRE

County: LANCASHIRE

Postcode:

LBS Number: 469242

Grade: II

Date Listed: 27/04/98

Date of Last Amendment: 27/04/98

 

 

Listing Text:

Dovecote. Late C18, with late C20 replacement of roof structure. Red brick, with tile rat course at mid- wall level, and a Welsh-slated pyramidal roof with a square ogee-roofed cupola.

Square plan, with doorway to east side and a window above, both with shallow segmental brick arches. Studded plank door, hung from straps set on pins attached to ashlar sandstone blocks set into doorway jambs. Blocked overlight to door head. At door head level, and extending around all elevations, a double course of tiles form a rat course'.

 

INTERIOR: Each wall contains 10 rows of nesting boxes, 9 boxes to each row, although internal alterations have damaged some areas. The lower part was latterly used to stall animals.