Dovecote remains at Pipe Ridware Hall and attached wall to the north

Dovecote remains at Pipe Ridware Hall and attached wall to the north, Pipe Ridware

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1249107
Date first listed:: 28-Jan-1988
List Entry Name:: Dovecote remains at Pipe Ridware Hall and attached wall to the north
Statutory Address:: Dovecote remains at Pipe Ridware Hall and attached wall to the north, Pipe Ridware

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1249107
Date first listed:: 28-Jan-1988
List Entry Name:: Dovecote remains at Pipe Ridware Hall and attached wall to the north
Statutory Address 1:: Dovecote remains at Pipe Ridware Hall and attached wall to the north, Pipe Ridware

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: Dovecote remains at Pipe Ridware Hall and attached wall to the north, Pipe Ridware

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Staffordshire
District:: Lichfield (District Authority)
Parish:: Mavesyn Ridware
National Grid Reference:: SK 09606 17494

Details

SK 01 NE 6/117 MAVESYN RIDWARE C.P. PIPE RIDWARE Dovecote remains at Pipe Ridware Hall and attached wall to the north

GV II Dovecote remains and wall. C16/C17. Red brick with sandstone ashlar dressings; flat corrugated iron roof. Hexagonal plan. Coped plinth, moulded cornice and upper windows with rectangular chamfered surrounds. A coped brick wall is attached to the north and formerly formed one side of a walled garden which surrounded the now demolished timber framed mansion of Pipe Ridware Hall.

Interior: the walls of the dovecote are lined with individual nesting boxes. The dovecote is in a derelict condition, two sides have been demolished and the original pitched roof has gone.

A late C18 drawing of the site made shortly before the demolition of the house appears in Stebbing Shaw, The History and Antiquities of Staffordshire vol. 1 (1798) p.161.

Listing NGR: SK0960617494

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 430720
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Shaw, Stebbing, The History and Antiquities of Staffordshire, (1798), 161

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.