Dovecotes And The Gatehouse

The Dovecotes and The Gatehouse, built around 1860, serve as a picturesque entrance to the Hurst-en-Cleys Estate for Charles Chevall Tooke Esq. The Gatehouse is two storeys high, featuring a ground floor made of sandstone and a first floor that is tile hung, topped with a stone slab roof. It has one triple-mullioned window with leaded lights and a right-hand doorcase that includes a studded door and an elliptical fanlight. To the left, there is a three-storey stone circular turret, inspired by central European medieval castles, which has a conical tiled roof and houses a dovecote on the upper storey. The turret features four gabled projections with dove holes and several additional holes lower down, along with pseudo-machicolations and slit windows on the first floor. The Dovecotes, numbered 1 and 2, are also two storeys tall, constructed from sandstone with a tiled roof and a large brick chimney stack. They include two mullioned windows and a penticed extension on the right side, along with a doorcase that has a cambered head.