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is also a dormer window. Unfortunately fuller 

 details of this excellent example of a Cotswold 

 dovecote have proved unobtainable. 



At N aunton the dovecote standing in Pigeon 

 House Close at the Manor House is a large 

 square building of good Cotswold stone. The 

 length of each wall is twenty-four feet, and 

 their height to the eaves eighteen. The slated 

 roof is four-gabled, each gable containing a 

 Tudor window two feet six inches square, 

 having a middle mullion of stone. Rising from 

 the centre of the roof is a square two-gabled 

 cupola mounted on four oak supports. There 

 is a string-course about half-way up the walls, 

 and the whole building is of imposing appear- 

 ance. 



The walls are nearly three feet thick, but the 

 doorway is unusually large — seven feet in 

 height by three feet six in width. Inside are 

 overonethousandL-shaped nest-holes, alight- 

 ing-ledges being attached to five out of the 

 thirty tiers. 



Passing into Oxfordshire, though conscious 

 of leaving many a Gloucestershire example 

 undescribed, we may pause at the park of 



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