Description

HUMSHAUGH HUMSHAUGH VILLAGE NY 9171 (South side)

12/256 Dovecote 20 metres south-east of Linden House, and attached garden walls

GV II

Dovecote and garden walls, mid-C18. External elevations rubble with roughly- shaped quoins; internal elevations brick in irregular stretcher bond; cut dressings; dovecote roof Welsh slate with wooden turret. South elevation of dovecote: altered flush-panelled door in chamfered stone surround. Coped gables, square turret on ridge with 3 round-headed pigeon holes, pyramidal cap and weathervane. Left return shows blocked window with stone lintel. Right return shows boarded doors at 2 levels, the upper pierced by pigeon holes.

Garden wall linking north-west corner of dovecote with south-east corner of Linden House (q.v.) has flat coping and boarded door in chamfered surround. Garden wall running from south-east corner of dovecote to ha-ha wall, (q.v.) contains boarded door with tooled-and-margined lintel and is patched and heightened in stone. Attached farmbuildings to rear not of interest.

Listing NGR: NY9183471408

External Links

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