Dovecot, Liberton House, Liberton Drive, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 July 1966. Dovecot.

Dovecot, Liberton House, Liberton Drive, Edinburgh

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Grade
A
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 268 693
Coordinates
55.91198, -3.17205
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The dovecot at Liberton House, located on Liberton Drive in Edinburgh, dates from the late 17th century. It is a large, single chamber structure designed for housing doves, featuring harled walls and decorative ashlar elements, including a moulded rat-course or alighting ledge, an eaves course, and crowstepped gables. The entrance is centrally located, with an oculus above set in a square ashlar surround. The roof is covered with graded grey slates and includes two tiers of flight holes in a cat-slide dormer.

Local climate

Dovecot, Liberton House, Liberton Drive, 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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