Dovecot At Blackford Farm is a Grade II* listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 May 1969. A Medieval Dovecot.

Dovecot At Blackford Farm

WRENN ID
half-alcove-evening
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Exmoor National Park
Country
England
Date first listed
22 May 1969
Type
Dovecot
Period
Medieval
Source
Historic England listing

Description

SS94NW SELWORTHY CP BLACKFORD 4/75 Dovecot at Blackford Farm 22.5.69

  • II*

Dovecot. Late medieval. Coursed random rubble, partly roughcast, conical stone roof rising from moulded cornice, open in centre. Circular in plan. Square headed plank door with renewed brick lintel. Interior: 11 tiers of irregularly spaced nesting boxes rising to eaves level, said to number 302 in all. No evidence of a potence or other interior features. The manorhouse at Blackford was destroyed by fire in 1875 and the dovecot was aquired by the National Trust in 1944. Scheduled Ancient Monument (Somerset County No 207). (Chadwyck-Healey, The History of the Part of West Somerset, 190l; Ridler, A Selworthy Notebook, 1983).

Listing NGR: SS9247445282

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