Dovecot, Fetteresso Castle is a Grade A listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 August 1972.
Dovecot, Fetteresso Castle
- WRENN ID
- haunted-span-hemlock
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 18 August 1972
- OS grid reference
- NO 843 853
- Coordinates
- 56.95948, -2.25838
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a 16th-century dovecote, located within the grounds of Fetteresso Castle. It is a bee-hive shaped structure built of harled rubble with three horizontal bands of stonework ('rat lines') and an entrance at the top.
Local climate
Dovecot, Fetteresso Castle receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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