Dovecot, Comiston House, Camus Avenue, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 July 1966. Dovecot.
Dovecot, Comiston House, Camus Avenue, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-garret-quill
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh South MP: Ian Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 July 1966
- Type
- Dovecot
- OS grid reference
- NT 240 686
- Coordinates
- 55.90452, -3.21709
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The dovecot at Comiston House on Camus Avenue in Edinburgh dates from the late 16th to early 17th century. It is a circular tower, originally an angle turret of the former Comiston House, measuring approximately 3.5 meters in diameter and 6 meters high. The structure is built of coursed rubble with sandstone dressings. The upper stage of the dovecot projects on sandstone corbels, and there are splayed oval sandstone gun loops facing northeast and southeast below. A low, narrow entrance with a sandstone surround is located on the northwest side. To the north, there is a small remaining portion of the wall from the original dwelling. The top sections of the masonry are partially missing. The interior was not inspected in 1997.
Local climate
Dovecot, Comiston House, Camus Avenue, 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 76% 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 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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