BOOK OF DOVECOTES 



In the middle of a field at Treyford Manor 

 Farm is a rectangular stone dovecote in good 

 repair, a little over twenty-five feet long, by 

 nearly twenty wide. The ridged roof is of tiles. 

 The walls are little less than three feet thick, 

 while the door, nowaltered from its formersize, 

 wasvery narrow, with an ogee arch. The height 

 to the eaves is about eighteen feet. More than 

 five hundred L-shaped nest-holes are in place. 

 The Manor Farm itself is dated 1621, and the 

 dovecote may quite well be older by at least a 

 century. 



At Trotton, near Midhurst, a square four- 

 gabled seventeenth-century dovecote stands in 

 agarden. The walls, three feet thick, are twenty- 

 fivein length, thetotal height tothegable ridge 

 being thirty-four. The building, which is dated 

 i626,hasasmallTudordoorway,withawindow 

 similar in style. 



Inside are twelve hundred L-shaped nests; 

 also, at a height of nine and eighteen feet re- 

 spectively, a six-inch ledge of stone, the under 

 edge of each being chamfered. A local sugges- 

 tion is that these were the supports for two div- 

 iding floors, the building having once contain- 

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