Dovecot, Disblair House is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 September 1984. 3 related planning applications.

Dovecot, Disblair House

WRENN ID
dark-passage-meadow
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Constituency
Gordon and Buchan MP: Harriet Cross (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
11 September 1984
OS grid reference
NJ 865 197
Coordinates
57.26791, -2.22477
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The dovecot, dating from 1804, is an early 19th-century rectangular structure located at Disblair, near St Meddans. It is built of stone with a saddle-backed, slated roof. The dovecot is approximately two storeys high and three windows wide. It originally contained 286 nests, though it is now in poor repair. The construction incorporates granite. A two-bay window is present, along with a rear wing. Niven Robertson’s work, "Old Dovecots,” provides further details.

Local climate

Dovecot, Disblair House receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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