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Latitude: 50.6523 / 50°39'8"N
Longitude: -4.3051 / 4°18'18"W
OS Eastings: 237148
OS Northings: 86162
OS Grid: SX371861
Mapcode National: GBR NN.8B08
Mapcode Global: FRA 17WB.SSD
Plus Code: 9C2QMM2V+WX
Entry Name: Granary with Dovecot over About 30 Metres North West of Smallacombe Farmhouse
Listing Date: 7 November 1985
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1105590
English Heritage Legacy ID: 92369
ID on this website: 101105590
SW 38 NE LIFTON
2/123 Granary with dovecot over about 30m
- north west of Smallacombe Farmhouse
GV II*
Granary with dovecot over. Circa early C18. Flemish bond brick with bitumen-painted
slate roof with low pitched gables at ends and to the front. 2 storeys with granary
raised on 12 brick staddles and first floor dovecot. Symmetrical front with central
entrance to granary reached by a probably C19 flight of stone steps replacing a
timber ladder. 2 round-headed niches on front to right and left of door have brick
arches. First floor entrance to dovecot below a later brick arch and rectangular
recess. Bullseyes with brick voussoirs to either side of the entrance, 1 preserves
its glazing bars. Pigeon entrance under a Diocletian lunette arch in the front gable
with brick arches. Bullseye ventilation holes to left and right sides of dovecot, 1
retains an ornamental slate louvre. Some pigeon holes below ventilators.
Interior Not inspected but said to contain 7 tiers of nest holes, 13 holes to each
tier with unusual rear inter-communication (Copeland). An unusually grand building
of its type and probably designed in conjunction with the rebuilding of the
farmhouse. G.W. Copeland, T.D.A., vol. 75 (1943), pp. 267 - 272.
Listing NGR: SX3714886162
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