Noun:

Dovecot,

dovecot's Usage Examples:

The Walled Garden has been restored and features a series of potager gardens, a working dovecote and the National Collection of Colchicums.

Brick was in some cases used to disguise earlier dovecotes built of local material.

Portions of the vicarage date from the 14th century, and in its garden there is a stone dovecote of great age.

For primary sources, see under the type of building the dovecote belonged to.

Beneath the dovecote a weighty wooden door with wrought iron steel grille leads into the lobby.

Avebury House is Elizabethan, with a curious stone dovecot.

You'll see the 15th century dovecote and Victorian Summerhouse.

Cross the stile and bear diagonally left across the field - keeping to the right of the excavated medieval dovecote.

The Bishop of Hereford had a dovecote on his manor in Ross which brought him 5 s a year in rent.

Monasteries could also build monastic granges and other farm buildings, dovecotes, mills, churches and chapels.

dovecote in a fair state of preservation, interior is circular with nesting boxes all round and reaching to roof height.

This outer court also contains the guest-chambers (P), the stables and lodgings of the lay brothers (N), the barns and granaries (Q), the dovecot (H) and the bakehouse (T).

circular dovecotes remained the norm, but brick dovecotes were built in all shapes and sizes and many polygonal dovecotes survive.