Dovecote remains at Pipe Ridware Hall and attached wall to the north is a Grade II listed building in the Lichfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 January 1988. Dovecote.
Dovecote remains at Pipe Ridware Hall and attached wall to the north
- WRENN ID
- knotted-mortar-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lichfield
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 January 1988
- Type
- Dovecote
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SK 01 NE 6/117
MAVESYN RIDWARE C.P. PIPE RIDWARE Dovecote remains at Pipe Ridware Hall and attached wall to the north
GV II Dovecote remains and wall. C16/C17. Red brick with sandstone ashlar dressings; flat corrugated iron roof. Hexagonal plan. Coped plinth, moulded cornice and upper windows with rectangular chamfered surrounds. A coped brick wall is attached to the north and formerly formed one side of a walled garden which surrounded the now demolished timber framed mansion of Pipe Ridware Hall.
Interior: the walls of the dovecote are lined with individual nesting boxes. The dovecote is in a derelict condition, two sides have been demolished and the original pitched roof has gone.
A late C18 drawing of the site made shortly before the demolition of the house appears in Stebbing Shaw, The History and Antiquities of Staffordshire vol. 1 (1798) p.161.
Listing NGR: SK0960617494
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