Mounthooley Dovecot, Craigiefold is a Grade A listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 April 1971. Dovecot.
Mounthooley Dovecot, Craigiefold
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-terrace-cobweb
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 April 1971
- Type
- Dovecot
- OS grid reference
- NJ 924 659
- Coordinates
- 57.68327, -2.12794
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Mounthooley Dovecot, dated 1800, is a tall dovecot with chamfered angles that create an octagonal shape. It features harl pointed rubble with tooled granite ashlar dressings and margins, as well as heavy boulder footings. The long elevations on the north, south, east, and west sides include a doorway on the west side and an oval oculus on the east, west, and south elevations above a continuous alighting ledge. The wallhead is slightly corbelled and crenellated, with each of the twelve merlons topped by a ball finial. The wallhead also masks a pyramidal slate roof.
Inside, the dovecot is lined full-height with approximately 300 brick nesting boxes, each box having a base made of brick slabs. A tall potence ladder remains, although some rungs are missing.
Local climate
Mounthooley Dovecot, Craigiefold receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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