BOOK OF DOVECOTES 



for it is hardly earlier in date than Jacobean 

 times; a s'quare brick building, roofed with old 

 flat tiles. The pyramidal roof is broken by three 

 dormer windows, and a zinc- topped cupola sur- 

 mounts the whole. The dovecote's form is near- 

 ly cubical; the walls eleven feet high, eleven 

 feet four inches square. I nside there are about 

 two hundred L-shaped nests. The tiers com- 

 mence four feet above the earthen floor, which 

 is upon a lower level than the ground outside. 



Another pleasant Kentish dovecote is found 

 at East Farleigh, also near the county town. 

 It is circular, built of stone rubble, with tiled 

 roof. The walls, twenty-six feet high to the 

 eaves, are four feet thick at the ground level, 

 gradually diminishing to three feet at the top — 

 a plan not very common. The diameter is four- 

 teen feet. The building has a string-course half- 

 way up. 



The deep-eaved roof contains four dormer 

 windows, and is crowned by a square cupola. 

 The weather-vane this carries is pierced with 

 "J. A. 1674," but the building itself is certainly 

 of greater age. Inside there are eight tiers of 

 L-shaped nest-holes, twenty-nine nests to a tier. 

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