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Description: | BARHOLM OLD HALL IS C16/C17. THE DOVECOTE IS CONTEMPORARY, AND CONTAINS APPROXIMATELY 1500 NEST BOXES. {1}
AN EARLY C17 PIGEONCOTE, GABLED AND FINIALLED, WITH TWO LOUVRED TURRETS AND STONE-LINED NESTING-BOXES. {2}
LISTED GRADE II*. {3}
THIS DOVECOTE IS A VERY LARGE, RECTANGULAR, STONE DOVECOTE WITH A GABLED, TILED ROOF WITH FINIALS AT EACH CORNER AND ON THE APEX OF THE GABLES. THERE ARE TWO LOUVRED TURRETS ON THE RIDGE OF THE ROOF. THE BUILDING IS TALL AND HAS A GLAZED WINDOW IN EACH GABLE END. LARGE QUOIN STONES HAVE BEEN USED AT EACH CORNER OF THE BUILDING AND AS A DRESSING FOR THE DOORWAY. THE DOORWAY ITSELF IS SMALL AND STILL HAS AN OLD WOODEN DOOR COMPLETE WITH ORIGINAL KEY. THE INTERIOR WALLS ARE LINED, FROM THE FLOOR TO THE TOPS OF THE GABLES, WITH STONE NEST BOXES, TOTALLING APPROXIMATELY 1500. EACH TIER OF NEST BOXES HAS A CONTINOUS ALIGHTING LEDGE UNDERNEATH. ONE OF THE GABLES HAS BEEN REBUILT AND HAS BRICK NEST BOXES INSTEAD OF STONE. THERE IS A CENTRAL STONE STRUCTURE WHICH IS ALMOST COVERED UP BY GUANO. {4}
The scheduling includes a rectangular, stone-built dovecote. {5} | Subjects: | Building | Temporal: | 1603 - 1699 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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