Dovecot, House Of Leask is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 April 1971. Dovecot.
Dovecot, House Of Leask
- WRENN ID
- first-quoin-thistle
- 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
- NK 027 330
- Coordinates
- 57.38797, -1.95614
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Dovecot at the House of Leask is a mid-18th century structure that was restored in 1981. It is an unusual, tall, square-plan dovecot featuring a voussoired segmentally-arched window. There is an alighting ledge or string course located close to the eaves, just below a row of flight holes. The roof is piended, slated, and topped with a ball finial. The building is constructed from roughly squared and snecked pink granite rubble, with squared rubble quoins.
Local climate
Dovecot, House Of Leask receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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