Description

TL 12 SE LANGLEY LANGLEY END

4/62 Dovecote at Langley End Cottage

GV II

Dovecote, now a garden building. C17, C18 brick infill, C19 floor inserted when turned into a cottage. Timber frame on high red brick plinth, red brick infill panels, steep old red tile pyramidal roof. A tall 2-storeys square structure on the edge of a bank at the middle of the former farmyard now entered from N by a door next the RH corner post with a small window above and another to the left. The frame has corner-posts, middle post on each side, a cross-rail at half the height of the timber framed part, and close-spaced studs. There are blocked segmental arched openings low down in the plinth on the E side as if for cross-ventilation below. Below the eaves on this side is an alighting shelf and pidgeon holes, the inserted floor is carried on a beam running N-S. Heavy horizontal convex-curved braces between wallplates at corners. Simple rafter roof with centre-posts carrying external knob. A building retained by Lutyens in his scheme for Hill End (now Langley End).

Listing NGR: TL1985023944

External Links

• Wikidata Q26471118

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings