Dovecote And Attached Kitchen Garden Wall

The dovecote and attached kitchen garden wall, located in Felbrigg Park, is a mid-18th century structure that was restored in 1937 by R.W. Ketton-Cremer. The dovecote is made of brick and features a shingle roof with an octagonal plan. It has a doorway on the south face with a flat rubbed brick arch and an eight-panel door, along with a panel that records the restoration. Each adjoining face has a Diocletian window, with the left window including an entry for birds in the center light. The structure has a moulded brick eaves cornice and a wooden octagonal turret with louvres on each side, topped with a glazed semicircular head, a timber cornice, and a lead bell-shaped dome with a weather vane. Inside, there are approximately 2,000 nest holes arranged in rows, separated by brick bands.

The dovecote is situated in the center of the north wall of the kitchen garden, which has walls made of 18th-century brick and stands approximately 5 meters high, featuring quadrant brick coping. The garden wall is square on plan, with the east and west walls extending south for about 30 meters. There is a large gateway in the west corner of the south wall, with gatepiers topped by stone pineapples. A central 17th-century doorway in the south wall, which previously led to a house removed to the garden in 1842 by W.H. Windham, is also present. The spine wall has a central gateway with a semicircular gault brick arch dated 1833, and there are glasshouses to the south with vents to the north, along with another stone pineapple at the west end.