Dovecote in the farmyard of Manor Farm. The only octagonal dovecote in Notts, of brick, originally with 1200 plaster nesting places. Built by the Sacheverells in the late C17 or early C18. (1)
Built by William Sacheverell in 1677. (2)
Restored by County Council, c.1980. (3)
Cannot reconcile name and date in (2). According to Pevsner, William Sacheverell died in 1616. (4)
Dovecote, at Manor Farm, near church. Independent octagonal brick structure built 1677 for William Sacheverall. Dimensions, walls 2ft 6 in thick, 82 ft circumference, 16ft high to the eaves. Pyramidal plain tiled roof with glover at apex. Alabaster (gypsum) nest holes, 1200 originally. Restoration in progress. (5)
The standing remains of Barton in Fabis dovecote, a Grade II Listed Building. The dovecote stands in the yard of Manor Farm, adjacent to a small garden centre. The 17th century dovecote is octagonal in plan and is constructed of red brick with a stone band three quarters of the way up running around its circumference. The roof is conical and tiled with a wood and plain tiled louvre. The louvre would have provided access to the dovecote for birds. The doorway, on the west side, is dressed with large ashlar blocks and is raised with stone steps leading up to it. The internal walls were originally lined with 1200 nest boxes but these only survive on five of the eight walls. The nest boxes, raised on a brick plinth 1 metre from the ground, are unusual in that they are built of gypsum plaster pre-cast locally before being erected in the dovecote. The dovecote was built in 1677 by William Sacheverell, lord of the manor, whose coat of arms survive inside the dovecote on the wall directly opposite the doorway. The building was restored by Nottinghamshire County Council in 1980 and during the work an inscription reading 1677 WS was found on the interior of one of the nesting boxes. Scheduled. (7)

Graham Beaumont, Dovecote, Manor Farm (Plan). SNT4083.

Listed Buildings Slides, 35 slides (Photograph). SNT2648.

Graham Beaumont, 16/02/83, Dovecote, Manor Farm (Plan). SNT4084.

<1> Pevsner N, 1979, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire 2nd ed., p 66 (Monograph). SNT4.

<2> Severn J, 1986, Dovecotes of Notts, p 14 (Published document). SNT1255.

<3> Bishop M, 1991, Pers Comm (Personal comment). SNT492.

<4> White J, 2002, Pers Comm (Personal comment). SNT1529.

<5> Woolrich AE, 1988, Details of Dovecotes of Notts, p 2 (Unpublished document). SNT1779.

<6> Whitaker J, 1927, Med Dovecotes in Notts (Published document). SNT1406.

<7> Historic England, 2021, National Record of Historic Environment (Digital archive). SNT5271.

<8> DOE, 1952, Dist of Rushcliffe (Unpublished document). SNT6212.