Craigiehall Doocot is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 January 1981. Dovecot.

Craigiehall Doocot

WRENN ID
former-kitchen-ebony
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh West MP: Christine Jardine (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
30 January 1981
Type
Dovecot
OS grid reference
NT 165 754
Coordinates
55.96485, -3.33784
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Craigiehall Doocot is a single chamber, rectangular-plan lectern doocot, dated 1672. Currently, it is roofless and has some loss of material at the wallhead as of 2016. The building is constructed of rubble sandstone and features a rat course running around all elevations. The south elevation includes a central boarded door, a central flight ledge above the rat course, and bracket skewputts. The west elevation has a central blocked oculus above the rat course.

Inside, as observed in 2016, there are approximately 600 nesting boxes that extend from floor to ceiling on all sides of the chamber.

Local climate

Craigiehall Doocot receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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