Building record 8054/1/10 - Dovecote and attached stabling

{1} Dovecote. Dated 1684 extended C19. Coursed squared limestone, half-hipped plain-tile roof. Single storey. Central round-arched doorway, red brick jambs and keyblock and boarded head; probably insertion of c.1800. Flanked by 1-light casement windows with wood lintels. Square blocked 1-light windows at higher level with ironstone jambs and wood lintels. Ironstone datestone above door inscribed A/FF/1684. Roof has ornamental tile ridges and central square timber glover with pyramidal slate roof. Attached single-storey red brick stable wings, probably mid-late C19, project either end. They have stable doors and windows above with segmental arched heads. Interior of main block sub-divided horizontally but retains roostings.

{4} Undated photo, also photo dated 14.01.1994;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 7/182 (checked) (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), F10 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN45262.

<3> English Heritage, 1991, Register of Parks & Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England (1991, Northamptonshire), (checked) (Report). SNN1167.

<4> Photographs of buildings in Stoke Bruerne (Photographs). SNN113273.

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