Doocot, Home Farm, Blackford is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 April 1971. Dovecot.
Doocot, Home Farm, Blackford
- WRENN ID
- worn-footing-bramble
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- Gordon and Buchan MP: Harriet Cross (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 April 1971
- Type
- Dovecot
- OS grid reference
- NJ 704 355
- Coordinates
- 57.40978, -2.49285
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The building is an 18th century circular doocot located at Home Farm in Blackford. It is harled and features a rat course along with a conical roof topped with a cock vane. The upper part of the doocot has stone boxes.
Local climate
Doocot, Home Farm, Blackford receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% 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 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 38 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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