Home Farm Dovecote

This is a dovecote, likely constructed between 1755 and 1775, possibly designed by Richard Woods or John Wood the Younger for Sir Robert Throckmorton of Buckland House. The dovecote is built of squared and coursed limestone, with ashlar quoins and rusticated dressings. It is octagonal in plan and has a stone tile hipped roof. The design is in the Gothic style. Each side features a pointed blind arch. A doorway is inset into the northeast side, set within a cambered brick arch and featuring a plank door. Above the doorway are blind quatrefoils alternating with blind loops. The building has rusticated bands at storey level and at the eaves, along with a rusticated plinth. A small octagonal lantern sits atop the roof, with arcaded sides, a stone tile roof, and a ball finial. The interior walls are lined with red brick in a chequer pattern, containing nesting boxes with brick ledges. A central potence (a wooden beam from which pigeons were released) is strengthened by diagonal braces.