Survey Data
Reg No
31311004
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Dovecote/pigeon house/aviary
Date
1841 - 1894
Coordinates
120201, 270833
Date Recorded
15/01/2013
Date Updated
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Description
Freestanding single-bay single-stage tower, extant 1894, on an octagonal plan. Now disused. Roof now missing. Lichen-covered coursed rubble limestone walls. Round-headed door opening with remains of limestone ashlar voussoirs[?]. Set back from road in unkempt grounds.
Appraisal
A polygonal tower, 'either a watch house or a pigeon house – probably the latter' (ITA 1945), not only surviving as an interesting relic of a long-forgotten estate annotated as "Brownstown [of] Browne Esquire" by Taylor and Skinner (1778 pl. 216), but also clearly illustrating the continued development or "improvement" of the estate in the later nineteenth century.