Dovecot, Auchterhouse Mansion is a Grade A listed building in the Angus local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 June 1971. Dovecot.
Dovecot, Auchterhouse Mansion
- WRENN ID
- outer-groin-soot
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Angus
- Constituency
- Angus and Perthshire Glens MP: Dave Doogan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 11 June 1971
- Type
- Dovecot
- OS grid reference
- NO 332 373
- Coordinates
- 56.52336, -3.08717
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Dovecot at Auchterhouse Mansion is a 17th-century structure designed in a rectangular plan with two chambers, built on a steeply sloping site to the east of the mansion house. It features rubble masonry with margined angles and a graded stone slate roof. The exterior includes dormered flight entries and a rat course at the rear, which is stepped at the sides.
On the southeast elevation, there are two entrance doorways with margined and rebated surrounds, and the door pins are intact. There is also a recess for an armorial panel and two dormer flight entries that have catslide roofs.
The interior, as observed in 2011, contains a nearly complete set of stone slab nesting boxes lining the walls.
Local climate
Dovecot, Auchterhouse Mansion receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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