Ruined Dovecote on site of Castle
Description of this historic site
The site of a dovecote, a building in which doves or pigeons were housed. It was in use from the Post Medieval period onwards and was associated with Baginton Hall. The dovecote was situated at Baginton Castle.
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Notes about this historic site
1 Pigeon-cote west of castle. Late 17th century or early 18th century. A small square stone structure of two storeys. Roofless and derelict. It belonged to Baginton Hall.
2 Dovecote. Square with pyramid roof. Arched doorway with shell-headed niches left and right.
3 This structure is now in a ruined condition: in places the masonry does stand to over 2m in height, but most of it is much lower. The stone has tumbled both inwards and down the slope immediately in front of it; it is generally overgrown by brambles etc. too.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
Comments
Pevsner mentions this as a dovecote but it is also supposed to have been a summer house. Between 1965 and 1969 I played on the site and remember it as being still roofed and containing segments of what I now know to be mineral railway lines and the bucket (I cant remember if it was wheeled that was a truck that would of run on it). The notice board for Baginton Castle mentions that rails were borrowed from the nearby quarry for removing spoil during the excavations of the castle it appears they were not all returned.
A picture dated circa 1910 by S. Houghton is shown (no 91) In Peter Fowler’s book Farms in England: Prehistoric to Modern ISBN 0 11 701130 4. The comment suggests that as the building has a chimney, only the second floor may have been a dovecote.
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