Dovecote Range Attached To Se Of Cowhouse At Skirpenbeck

SKIRPENBECK Main Street SE 75 NW (South Side) 1/49 Dovecote range attached to south-east of cow- house at Skirpenbeck House. GV II

Dovecote, shelter shed and cartshed. C1800. Red brick partly Flemish bond, pantiled roof. 2-storey, 1-bay centre set forward of 1-storey, l-bay side wings, outshot to rear-left adjoins cowhouse (g.v). Centre has rebated, basket- arched cart entrance ( now without doors). Set beneath a square opening with store ledge and flat arch; store ledge and pigeon holes beneath eaves on right return. Wing to right has an old boarded door beneath flat arch whilst left wing is blind but has basket-arched, shelter-shed openings on its left return. Detailed eaves to hipped roofs; truncated central apex presumably site of a lantern. Interior: access to dovecote via ladder within right wing; line-ash floor, remains of clay-tile nesting boxes, pattern-book king post trusses.

Listing NGR: SE7464156928