Listed Building record MDO4230 - Dovecote at Stock Gaylard, Lydlinch

Dovecote, possibly medieval with a rainwater head dated 1675, extensively remodelled in about 1800 as an ornamental summerhouse. A circular structure of coursed rubble with ashlar dressings, and a conical tiled roof with a weather vane.

Circular pigeon cote with rubble walls and tiled roof in garden to west of Stock Gaylard House, rain water head dated 1675. Remodelled as a summer house in the 19th century. <1>

(ST 72181302) Circular building depicted; not described <2.1> Condition good. See ground photograph. <2>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 1, 139-40 (Monograph). SDO146.

‘(5) Stock Gaylard House (72231330 … In the garden to the W. of the house is a circular Pigeon Cote with rubble walls, and a tiled roof partly hidden by a parapet. The cote appears to have been remodelled as a summer-house in the 19th century, with the re-use of earlier elements from elsewhere. To the S. are an upper and a lower doorway and small windows flanking the lower doorway; all these openings have segmental-pointed heads and are of the 19th century; the lower doorway has a brick head while the other openings have heads and jambs of moulded ashlar. Over the upper doorway is a lozenge shaped stone panel carved with the arms of Lewys (Plate 48). Small windows similar to those already described open to E. and W. in the upper storey. On the N. side is a ground-floor window of two lights with two-centred heads and continuous hollow-chamfered jambs; in the upper storey a single-light window is blocked by a clock which is probably of the late 18th or early 19th century. A cast-lead rainwater head has the shield of Lewys and the date 1675. A scrolled wrought-iron weather-vane caps the conical roof.’

<2> Stone, J W, Field Investigators Comments JWS, F1 JWS 15-NOV-78 (Unpublished document). SDO11902.

<2.1> Ordnance Survey, 1:2500 scale, 1927 (Map). SWX1197.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 202292 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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