Court House Dovecote

Court House Dovecote stands in the village of Richard's Castle, Herefordshire, England.

Historic England suggests that the dovecote dates from the 17th century,[1] although the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England survey of Herefordshire carried out in the 1930s suggested medieval origins.

In his study, A Book of Dovecotes published in 1920, Arthur Owens Cooke notes that this last feature is "unique in Herefordshire".

[1] The pigeons kept within the structure provided a source of meat, and their droppings were used as fertilizer.

Alfred Watkins, in his study Pigeon House of Herefordshire and Gower published in 1891, records the presence of a revolving ladder within the building, by which the nesting boxes could be accessed and eggs extracted.