Description

LITTLE GADDESDEN LITTLE GADDESDEN
TL 01 SW (East side)

2/203 Gade House
26.8.70 (formerly listed as
The Dovecote at
Home Farm)

GV II

Dovecote. In style early C18 but probably 1821 by Jeffry Wyatt as an
antiquarian exercise. Converted as part of a house in 1970's. Red brick
in Flemish-bond with some blue headers. Battered base faced with York
stone slabs with tooled margins. Steep tiled octagonal roof with a small
hipped dormer on each facet and open octagonal cupola with ogee roof and
vane. Single-storey red brick and tiled extensions leaving half of
dovecote exposed. An impressively massive octagonal tall dovecote with
walls rising sheer to corbelled eaves courses with 2 courses of
modillions and plain course between. Tall open cupola presumably
protected entrance for birds. Flat gauged arch to doorway on N face. 2
narrow windows low down. 17ft.10ins wide, with 5ft base, 25ft to eaves
and about 17ft high roof. (Senar(1983)107).

Listing NGR: TL0016112280

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26392581

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire: North and West (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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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)