Carew Manor Dovecote
Church Road
Beddington
Greater London
SM6 7NH
England
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There has been a dovecote at Carew Manor from late medieval times which stood in Pigeon House Meadow, to the east of the present site. It was probably demolished and replaced by the existing large octagonal brick building between 1707 and 1727, when the first Baronet, Sir Nicholas Carew, reorganised the grounds around the house. It originally contained about 1360 nesting boxes built into the inner face of the wall, giving it a complex honeycomb-like structure. The large rotating ladder or potence used by the keepers to raided the nesting boxes for eggs and young birds ('squabs') is still in situ.
Our tours start at the Dovecote and take in the Grade I listed Great Hall of Carew Manor as well as the 18th century Orangery wall.
Venue Type:
Historic house or home, Heritage site
Inside is a Roman Coffin on the ground floor which was found in the 1930s when a pipe trench was dug on the east side of Church Road just south of the churchyard. It is made of non-local limestone and dates from the 3rd or 4th century AD.
Tours of the Dovecote include a visit to Carew Manor Great Hall, with its late medieval arch-braced hammer-beam roof, listed Grade 1; and a tour of the Manor's cellars with a visible chalk and flint construction dating to earlier houses on this site.
Collection details
Architecture, Social History
Key artists and exhibits
- Dovecote
- Roman Coffin
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