BOOK OF DOVECOTES 



cote twenty-one feet square has some eight 

 hundred nests, brick-built, with an alighting- 

 ledge for every tier. The roof has been repaired. 

 Offenham Court, with its pigeon-house twenty 

 feet square, four-gabled, and lighted by four 

 windows, is of interest as standing on the site 

 once occupied by the sanatorium of the Abbey 

 of Evesham, in which house the last of a long 

 line of abbots died. 



In a countyso well wooded as Worcester we 

 shallfind withoutsurprise numerousdovecotes 

 into the construction of which timber enters to 

 a large extent. Some are the genuine "black 

 and white," others have timber framing, with 

 brick "filling-in." Of the latter kind was for- 

 merly the very interesting example at the 

 Manor Farm, Cropthorne; interesting here 

 as being of that form very common in Scotland 

 but rare in England — a house of two compart- 

 ments. The house is twenty-eight feet six 

 inches long, by fifteen feet ten inches broad. 

 Two sides are built in part of timber, but the 

 other two are now of brick. The two compart- 

 ments contain a total of five hundred and ten 

 nests. The whole is roofed with tiles; the lan- 

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