Pigeonnier - another gite ;)
Well at last, what we have previously been describing as a “romantic folly” (the old tumbled down ruin fenced off behind the sandpit) has been de-ruined!
It’s been a long term plan to restore the pigeonnier, for no other reason than it needed doing, but as it wasn’t high on the “to-do” list it hasn’t got done, until now.
It’s hard to justify restoring a building that will be no more than a shed (or a little menagerie for some birds was a plan) but looking at it everyday got the better of me.
I have been building the walls back up (when I had some free time) on and off for the last 6 months.
We had a cold snap at the start of March, and this was my chance to lock myself in my workshop with my new Jet supersaw and get whittling.
Fortunately there are loads of examples of pigeonniers within 5 km of here, so before I started, off I went with my digital camera and sketchpad to work out the design details.
Although there is a huge variation in roof pitch, height, angle of “skirt” etc. The joinery techniques internally, are all remarkably similar. What at first seems a tremendous load of over–engineering and messing about, gradually starts to make perfect sense once you build one!
Thought I would post some pictures of the tower all naked, before I start tiling – more pics to come when I have finished
It’s been a long term plan to restore the pigeonnier, for no other reason than it needed doing, but as it wasn’t high on the “to-do” list it hasn’t got done, until now.
It’s hard to justify restoring a building that will be no more than a shed (or a little menagerie for some birds was a plan) but looking at it everyday got the better of me.
I have been building the walls back up (when I had some free time) on and off for the last 6 months.
We had a cold snap at the start of March, and this was my chance to lock myself in my workshop with my new Jet supersaw and get whittling.
Fortunately there are loads of examples of pigeonniers within 5 km of here, so before I started, off I went with my digital camera and sketchpad to work out the design details.
Although there is a huge variation in roof pitch, height, angle of “skirt” etc. The joinery techniques internally, are all remarkably similar. What at first seems a tremendous load of over–engineering and messing about, gradually starts to make perfect sense once you build one!
Thought I would post some pictures of the tower all naked, before I start tiling – more pics to come when I have finished
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