ESSEX AND SUFFOLK 



contains nearly eight hundred L-shaped nests, 

 with potence and ladder complete. 



Another typical Essex example in timber 

 and lath and plaster is found in the garden of 

 a house called The Moat, Gestingthorpe. It 

 is nearly square, about sixteen by fifteen feet; 

 contains neither nest-holes nor pigeons; and is 

 probably of rather later date than thefifteenth- 

 century house to which it belongs. 



At Tiptofts, Saffron Walden, a farm which, 

 just three centuries and a half ago, was pre- 

 sented by Lord Mordaunt to Brazenose Col- 

 lege, Oxford, in support of scholarships, there 

 is a brick dovecote fourteen feet square. The 

 roof is of a curious form, its slope being brok- 

 en at one end by a gable. Many of the nests 

 have disappeared, but those remaining are L- 

 shaped. 



At Little Braxted Hall, near Witham, is a 

 square wooden dovecote, largely constructed 

 of oak and placed on a brick foundation. The 

 tiles on the roof are of a very old type, but it 

 is hardly safe to dogmatise upon the question 

 of its age. 



Other Essex examples include the one at 

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