Dovecot, 2 Dovecot Road, Corstorphine, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Dovecot.
Dovecot, 2 Dovecot Road, Corstorphine, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- grey-sentry-dew
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh West MP: Christine Jardine (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1970
- Type
- Dovecot
- OS grid reference
- NT 200 725
- Coordinates
- 55.93902, -3.28152
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Dovecot located at 2 Dovecot Road in Corstorphine, Edinburgh, dates back to the late 16th century. It features a three-stage, circular plan, beehive design constructed from sandstone rubble with coarse sandstone dressings. The exterior includes dividing band courses and projecting stone eaves. On the southeast elevation, there are three-tier flight holes set in an arch above the second stage dividing band course. The northwest elevation has a low entrance doorway with an iron grille door, a stone lintel, and long and short surrounds. The roof is a shallow conical shape, covered with stone slabs.
Inside, the dovecot contains stone nesting boxes and a potence stone, which has a socket for a pole at the center of the stone slabbed floor. Surrounding the dovecot are boundary walls made of coped, coursed rubble, along with circular plan coped dome gatepiers to the left. The site features iron gates, with a pedestrian entrance to the right and a single iron gate.
Local climate
Dovecot, 2 Dovecot Road, Corstorphine, Edinburgh sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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