Description

NY 96 NE
5/305

SANDHOE
BEAUFRONT RED HOUSE
Dovecote 50 metres
south-west of Red
House Farmhouse

II

Dovecote, mid-C18, altered late C20. Squared rubble with cut quoins and
dressings; stone slate roof. Square 3-storey structure with 1st and 2nd floor
bands, and arcaded eaves corbel table. Small-paned casement windows with
pointed arches and stone surrounds on east and west, those on ground floor C20
copies. Similar casements in square-headed openings, and renewed door on north.
Pyramidal roof with flanking stacks, one banded, the other rendered over.

C20 extension on south and attached garage, on north are not of special interest.

A painting of c.1785 in Beaufront Castle shows the roof capped by a wooden
louvre which would provide pigeon access.

Listing NGR: NY9707265152

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26589963

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Recommended Books

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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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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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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)