Dovehouse Piece
Description of this historic site
Documentary evidence suggests that this is the site of a dovecote, a building used for the breeding and housing of doves or pigeons. The location is 500m north of Rushy Close Spinney, Wasperton. The dovecote would have been of Post Medieval date.
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Notes about this historic site
1 Dovehouse Piece appears on the 1686 Rowlinson Estate Map by James Fish.
2 Dovehouse Piece appears on the 1839 Tithe Map.
3 The site was visited but the dovehouse no longer exists.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
Comments
Writing in 1923 T B D Horniblow said that the dovecot was still standing, as it had done for over a hundred years. Although the huge crack in it (you can see it in the above photograph) would probably collapse sometime in the near future.
Source: “Rural Romance. Quaint Tales of Warwickshire (Shakespeare’s Country)” by T B D Horniblow
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