Dovecot, Clunie is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 March 1994. Dovecot.
Dovecot, Clunie
- WRENN ID
- ragged-lantern-umber
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 March 1994
- Type
- Dovecot
- OS grid reference
- NJ 639 501
- Coordinates
- 57.54012, -2.60462
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Dovecot at Clunie, built between 1825 and 1830, is a square-plan, two-stage structure that may incorporate an ice house below, as it is built into rising ground. The exterior features random rubble with an ashlar alighting course and flight-holes. There is a door on the west side that leads to a vaulted basement, which is lined with two courses of ashlar. Another door on the east side provides access to the dovecot chamber above, which is lined with brick and stone nesting boxes. The chamber includes a rat course and a window above facing west, along with two pairs of flight holes located on the south side, set within ashlar panels. The dovecot is currently roofless as of 1990.
Local climate
Dovecot, Clunie receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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