Dovecote At Langley End Cottage

TL 12 SE LANGLEY LANGLEY END

4/62 Dovecote at Langley End Cottage

GV II

Dovecote, now a garden building. C17, C18 brick infill, C19 floor inserted when turned into a cottage. Timber frame on high red brick plinth, red brick infill panels, steep old red tile pyramidal roof. A tall 2-storeys square structure on the edge of a bank at the middle of the former farmyard now entered from N by a door next the RH corner post with a small window above and another to the left. The frame has corner-posts, middle post on each side, a cross-rail at half the height of the timber framed part, and close-spaced studs. There are blocked segmental arched openings low down in the plinth on the E side as if for cross-ventilation below. Below the eaves on this side is an alighting shelf and pidgeon holes, the inserted floor is carried on a beam running N-S. Heavy horizontal convex-curved braces between wallplates at corners. Simple rafter roof with centre-posts carrying external knob. A building retained by Lutyens in his scheme for Hill End (now Langley End).

Listing NGR: TL1985023944