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dovecote, Parsonby
locality:-   Parsonby
civil parish:-   Plumbland (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   dovecote
coordinates:-   NY14173915
1Km square:-   NY1439
10Km square:-   NY13
references:-   Listed Buildings 2010


photograph
CBV89.jpg (taken 10.10.2014)  

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"DOVECOTE SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST CUTHBERT / / / PLUMBLAND / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 411793 / NY1417939159"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Dovecote used as hearse house in C19. Probably C16 with C19 alterations. Large blocks of dressed red and St Bees sandstone, under hipped graduated greenslate roof. Partly-blocked narrow south doorway. North wall has large C19 double plank doors, altered to take hearse. Interior has remains of original stone boulins. See Transactions Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian &Archaeological Society, old series, ix, pp.425-6."


photograph
CBV90.jpg (taken 10.10.2014)  

hearsay:-  
Square, 600 nests.

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