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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 75 SW 162 |
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| Type of record: | Listed Building |
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| Name: | DOVECOTE IN THE GROUNDS OF BYDEWS PLACE, Tovil |
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Summary
Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1550 to 1899
| Grid Reference: | TQ 7487 5433 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ75SW |
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| Parish: | TOVIL, MAIDSTONE, KENT |
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Monument Types
- SITE (Post Medieval - 1550 AD to 1899 AD)
| Protected Status: | Listed Building (II) 1336246: DOVECOTE IN THE GROUNDS OF BYDEWS PLACE |
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Full description
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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TOVIL GREEN 1. 5278 (West Side) Dovecote in the grounds of Bydews Place TQ 75 SW 10/173A II GV
2. C17 or earlier. Altered by being made into a cottage in the Cl9. 2 storeys stone. Conical tiled roof with hipped pigeon entrance and yellow brick chimney stack. Stringcourse. 2 inserted C19 casements with modern leaded lights. Doorcase with cambered arch. The interior contains pigeon holes on the ground floor only and a C19 semi-circular wooden staircase.
Bydews Place, Dovecote in the grounds of By dews Place, Cottage to north-west of Bydews Place, Bydews Farmhouse, Former Granary to the south-west of Bydews Farmhouse and Oasthouse at Bydews Farm to the south-west of the former Granary form a group.
Listing NGR: TQ7487054333
Additional bibliography. (2)
English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.
<2> English Heritage, 1995, Monuments Protection Programme, Step 1 Report - Dovecotes (Unpublished document). SKE16578.
Sources and further reading
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| Source description | | --- | Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. |
| <2> | Unpublished document: English Heritage. 1995. Monuments Protection Programme, Step 1 Report - Dovecotes. |
