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thirty-five. Like similar pigeon-houses of this 

 shape in Scotland, — where, however, they are 

 mostly covered by a lean-to roof — the build- 

 ing is divided into two compartments of equal 

 size, the party-wall being carried through the 

 roof, which is of Colly Weston slabs. Each sec- 

 tion of the roof has a small lantern to give en- 

 trance to the pigeons, furnished with alighting- 

 ledges facing south and north. 



The walls, of local limestone, have a marked 

 ''batter" — sloping slightly inwards as theyrise. 

 On three sides they are blank, being broken on 

 the south side only by a heavily barred window 

 giving light to each compartment, with a door 

 to each. The doorways are noticeably small; 

 three feet four inches high, and two feet wide. 

 The doors themselves are almost certainly ori- 

 ginal, being made of solid oak four inches thick. 



In the middle of the south wall, between the 

 windows, astoneslabbears the name "Maurice 

 Tresham" in raised lettering. Above, at the 

 end of the table-course over the dividing- wall 

 between the two compartments, is the device 

 of the Tresham family, a triple trefoil. This is 

 repeated on the north side, and again onastone 



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