Dovecot, Aberdour House is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 April 1971. Dovecot.
Dovecot, Aberdour House
- WRENN ID
- haunted-joist-harvest
- Grade
- C
- 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 907 634
- Coordinates
- 57.66059, -2.15622
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Dovecot at Aberdour House dates from around 1800 and is a square structure without a roof. It is built from dark whinstone rubble, featuring contrasting grey tooled granite dressings. The building has a central entrance with a small square vent above it and a continuous alighting or rat ledge that encircles the entire structure.
Inside, there are approximately 200 nesting boxes. The supporting uprights are made of brick, while the horizontal supports consist of thin pottery slabs specifically designed for this purpose.
Local climate
Dovecot, Aberdour House receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% 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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