Dovecote Approximately 100 Metres North West Of Ascott Park Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 July 1963. Dovecote.
Dovecote Approximately 100 Metres North West Of Ascott Park Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- quiet-shingle-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 July 1963
- Type
- Dovecote
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
STADHAMPTON B480 SU69NW (South side) Ascott 6/114 Dovecote approx. 100m. NW of 18/07/63 Ascott Park Farmhouse (Formerly listed as Ascott House Dovecote and Workshop Pavilion)
GV II*
Dovecote. C16. Red brick with some vitrified headers; old plain-tile roof. Octagonal plan. Single storey. Walls have a corbel table of moulded bricks forming trefoiled arches; grey vitrified headers form patterns of horizontal zig-zag, diaper and Flemish-bond chequer on wall surfaces below. Doorway and 3-light casement are later insertions. Roof has 4 small dormer openings and a low central glover. Interior: circular plan. Walls have tiers of nesting boxes. Roof has butt purlins and is probably largely original. Formed part of the formal gardens of Ascott Park. (Ascott Park is included in the HBMC County Register of Gardens at Grade II; V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.VII, p.121; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.776; F. Woodward: Oxfordshire Parks, 1982).
Listing NGR: SU6110198254
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