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29 High Street HaslingfieldDovecote, 29 High Street, Haslingfield
History of 29 High Street, Haslingfield
Listed building:
Dovecote, now a dwelling. C.1650 restored mid C20.
Dovecot, previously in grounds of the Hall, Haslingfield. April 1975 (MoC339/75)
Converted into a dwelling in 1977. It had nesting boxes for 750 pairs of pigeons which could be reached for egg collection by a potence – a ladder on a rotating central structure. The conical roof is covered in ‘fish scale’ tiles rising to the the attractive cupola.
(Walk and Look Around Haslingfield 1994)
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