DOVECOTE AT ALDERLEY PARK

DOVECOTE AT ALDERLEY PARK, CONGLETON ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1221289
Date first listed:: 05-Jul-1984
List Entry Name:: DOVECOTE AT ALDERLEY PARK
Statutory Address:: DOVECOTE AT ALDERLEY PARK, CONGLETON ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1221289
Date first listed:: 05-Jul-1984
List Entry Name:: DOVECOTE AT ALDERLEY PARK
Statutory Address 1:: DOVECOTE AT ALDERLEY PARK, CONGLETON ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: DOVECOTE AT ALDERLEY PARK, CONGLETON ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Nether Alderley
National Grid Reference:: SJ8452474921

Details

SJ 87 SW 7/140

NETHER ALDERLEY C.P. CONGLETON ROAD (East Side) Dovecote at Alderley Park

14/4/1967

GV II

Formerly dovecote, now store: early C19 for Sir J T Stanley. Irregular bond orange brick with buff sandstone dressings. Pyramidal Kerridge stone-slate roof. Tall building, hexagonal in plan. Stone plinth, rusticated quoins and modillion cornice. Each face has a circular hole (now either glazed or blocked) with an ashlar surround and a keystone at each cardinal point. Apex of roof has an open wooden bellcote with a weathervane. Interior: tiers of holes in the brickwork have projecting brick ledge in front of them; these number over 400.

Listing NGR: SJ8452474921

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 58307
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.