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indispensable to every country house. though they usually 

 apjear t have been placed at some distance, and seldom 

 within the garden walls. At the same time they w.n often 

 \isihle from the garden, .is .it Cleeve Prior, where the 

 tiled roof of the circular building is .1 picturesque object 

 from the lawn. 



"Co'.umbaries." or pi^eon-hoi'sfs, were usually square 

 or octagonal in form, with Cabled r ..-its, and a cupola forming .1 

 small open-air dovecote at the top. Circular pigeon-houses 



like that at Cleeve Prior are less common. There is an 

 example in the rose ^irden at Hoiisham. with tu-rs of nesting- 

 places built in the walls, and in SUMK- ... !-<>., .is .it Meltcm Mall in 

 .Norfolk, and at Athelhampton in Dorset, a tevoh'in^ p.st stool 

 .n .1 si.ket in the centre, with a projecting arm to ivhuli a 

 ladder was liun^. In this way, by turning r-mnd the ptst, 

 act. ess could be had to any part of the structure. The 

 curious interior of the Athelhampton example is ilhMrati-d 

 later in this volume, l:\elyn mentions a " pigeon-house of 





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