Stocks Dovecot

ALDBURY STOCKS ROAD SP 91 SE (East side) 5/12 Stocks Dovecot - GV II Dovecot. '1753' in blue bricks on S front, (possibly restored in C19), for Duncombe family as owners of Stocks Manor. Red brick with blue brick diaper and date on S front, steep red tile roof and white weatherboarded tiled central turret. A tall, single-storey rectangular building facing S beside the road. Roof ridged N-S but building wider than depth. Projecting plinth and eaves band. Central boarded door in heavy frame with 2-light unglazed rectangular fanlight over and no arch in the brickwork. Small 2-light unglazed windows in heavy frame set high in middle of E side. Pilaster at E end of N wall and N and W walls plain. Square weatherboarded turret at centre of ridge with pitched tiled roof and 3 pidgeon openings with shelves on S end. Interior walls lined with twin nesting boxes in brick up to eaves level. Corner posts of turret rise from 2 beams resting on the 2 purlins. Timber lintols to inside of door and window.

Listing NGR: SP9645713267