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and pigeons side by side — like caging lambs 

 and lions cheek by jowl. But, always provided 

 that the intervening floor was strong, the gen- 

 tler occupants might in time grow fearless of 

 their foes. 



The size is small; twelve by eleven feet. A 

 still smaller specimen of this style of dovecote 

 stands in thegarden of a house at Mansel Lacy, 

 a pretty village not far distant, on the H ereford 

 to Kington road. In this, the smallest dove- 

 cote of the county, the size is nine feet square. 

 Close to the Mansel Lacy dovecote, in the 

 gable of the dwelling-house, are pigeon-holes. 

 The little building is much overgrown and in 

 no little danger of decay and ruin. 



The Butt House dovecote, kept in excellent 

 condition, is four-gabled, and without a cupola 

 or lantern on the roof. Luntley Court, a fine 

 black and white farmhouse of the late seven- 

 teenth century, somewhat defaced by modern 

 additions, stands in the not very distant parish 

 of Dilwyn; and here we have a dovecote which, 

 whilelessrichly decorated than the Butt House 

 example, has a four-gabled lantern on the roof. 

 Though not entitled to minute description, it 



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