Listed Building record MDO13897 - Dovecote, Church Farm, Iwerne Courtney or Shroton

A seventeenth-century pigeon house situated to the south west of Church Farmhouse. The building is rectangular with walls of ashlar and a tiled roof.

Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 129 (Monograph). SDO136.

‘(8) Shroton Farm (85991254), house, 150 yds. N. of the church … A 17th-century Pigeon House, 15 yds. S.W. of the barn, is rectangular on plan. The walls are of ashlar and the roof is tiled. The walls have a chamfered plinth and on the S. side is a blocked doorway with a four-centred stone head and chamfered jambs. Internally the structure is built in courses of thin stone slabs alternating with courses of square blocks, the latter spaced so that each interstice forms a nesting-box.’

Whitworth, Alan, 1988, Dorset Dovecotes, 22 (Monograph). SDO21751.

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