DOVECOT 45 METRES EAST OF MANLEY OLD HALL

DOVECOT 45 METRES EAST OF MANLEY OLD HALL, SUGAR LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1329872
Date first listed:: 08-Jan-1970
List Entry Name:: DOVECOT 45 METRES EAST OF MANLEY OLD HALL
Statutory Address:: DOVECOT 45 METRES EAST OF MANLEY OLD HALL, SUGAR LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1329872
Date first listed:: 08-Jan-1970
List Entry Name:: DOVECOT 45 METRES EAST OF MANLEY OLD HALL
Statutory Address 1:: DOVECOT 45 METRES EAST OF MANLEY OLD HALL, SUGAR LANE

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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Location

Statutory Address:: DOVECOT 45 METRES EAST OF MANLEY OLD HALL, SUGAR LANE

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

District:: Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Manley
National Grid Reference:: SJ 50460 72630

Details

MANLEY C.P. SUGAR LANE SJ 57 SW (North Side) 3/19 Dovecot 45m east of Manley Old Hall 8/1/1970 II

Formerly gatehouse or porch to the original Manley Hall, later dovecot: probably late Medieval origins, converted to dovecot, dated 1660, and repairs of 1799 recorded. Dressed buff Manley sandstone with upper portion in orange brick, no roof survives. Square in plan. 2-storey, 1-bay west front. Foundations have projecting course that may have carried a wooden bridge over the moat. Above is a partly blocked doorway under a chamfered lintel which has a worn inscription that may read: REPAIRED BY ....._..0_TEN OF THE INNER TEMPLE A.D. MDCCXCIX

Within the brick upper portion is another worn stone plaque reading:

? ERECTED TO JOHN? SONNE TO ROBART AND ELIZABETH DAVIES OF ASHTON 1660.

Rear has original doorway, again with chamfered lintel. Interior: Contains stone stairway to upper level which has up to 5 tiers of nest boxes surviving. Joist holes of original 1st floor survive in the stonework.

John Davies is reported to have drowned in the moat of Manley Hall,the outline of which is still visible today.

Listing NGR: SJ5046072630

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Legacy System:: LBS

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