Dovecote 20 M SE of Linden House, and Attached Garden Walls Humshaugh, England
Listed Building Data
Dovecote 20 M SE of Linden House, and Attached Garden Walls has been designated a Grade II listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1370570
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 24 May 1988
- Name
- DOVECOTE 20 METRES SOUTH-EAST OF LINDEN HOUSE, AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALLS
- Location
- DOVECOTE 20 METRES SOUTH-EAST OF LINDEN HOUSE, AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALLS
- Parish
- Humshaugh
- District
- Northumberland
- Grid Reference
- NY 91834 71408
- Easting
- 391834.0000
- Northing
- 571408.0000
Listed Building Description
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HUMSHAUGH HUMSHAUGH VILLAGE NY 9171 (South side)
12/256 Dovecote 20 metres south-east of Linden House, and attached garden walls
GV II
Dovecote and garden walls, mid-C18. External elevations rubble with roughly- shaped quoins; internal elevations brick in irregular stretcher bond; cut dressings; dovecote roof Welsh slate with wooden turret. South elevation of dovecote: altered flush-panelled door in chamfered stone surround. Coped gables, square turret on ridge with 3 round-headed pigeon holes, pyramidal cap and weathervane. Left return shows blocked window with stone lintel. Right return shows boarded doors at 2 levels, the upper pierced by pigeon holes.
Garden wall linking north-west corner of dovecote with south-east corner of Linden House (q.v.) has flat coping and boarded door in chamfered surround. Garden wall running from south-east corner of dovecote to ha-ha wall, (q.v.) contains boarded door with tooled-and-margined lintel and is patched and heightened in stone. Attached farmbuildings to rear not of interest.
Listing NGR: NY9183471408
