Description

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SP4226
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SANDFORD ST MARTIN
MANOR ROAD (East side)
Dovecote Barn and Orchard Barn
Former stable and attached dairy approximately 20 metres to east of Brandon House

(Formerly listed as Stable and attached dairy approximately 20 metres to east of Brandon Farmhouse, THE GREEN)

GV
II
Former dovecote, later a stable. C17. Coursed squared marlstone and limestone rubble with some marlstone ashlar dressings; Stonesfield slate and corrugated asbestos roof. Gable-fronted square plan.

One storey plus loft. Front, in dressed stone, has a central doorway and, in the gable, a two-light stone mullioned window with label. Right side wall has an inserted flat-arched window. Roof is partly stone-slated and has gable parapets.

Interior: walls have some stone ledges and are lined with blocked nesting boxes. Roof has ridge purlins.

Single-storey dairy range running towards house, in rubble with a stone-slate roof, has a projecting gabled entrance bay with a datestone inscribed 1853.

Buildings form a fine group with former Brandon Farmhouse (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SP4205226607

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26488383

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Recommended Books

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)