Listed Building record MDO10324 - Dovecote, Binghams Melcombe, Melcombe Horsey

Seventeenth century dovecote. Rubble walls with a plain door; small square flight holes and rubble and brick nesting holes within. The roof is conical stone-slated, with a wooden lantern which is also stone slated.

GREENBACK List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Scheduling record). SDO19706.

Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch 2, Dorset XXXII.2 Revised: 1901, Published: 1902 (Map). SDO11594.

'Dovecot'

Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 1, 162 (Monograph). SDO146.

‘(2) Bingham's Melcombe (771021), house and outbuildings, stands in a broad shallow valley at the head of the Devil's Brook, between Henning Hill and Coombe Hill. … A number of ancillary buildings etc. stand near the house, in the formal gardens and in the park to the S. The 18th-century Barn incorporating stabling, close N.E., is of rubble and thatch. The Ice House, 20 yds. N., is an early 19th-century structure beneath an earth mound. Some 30 yds. N.N.W. is a circular rubble-built Dovecote of the late 17th century, with a conical roof (Plate 158). ‘

Whitworth, Alan, 1988, Dorset Dovecotes, 23 (Monograph). SDO21751.

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