Dovecot, Colinton Castle, Colinton Road, 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, Colinton Castle, Colinton Road, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
first-wicket-pearl
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh South West MP: Dr Scott Arthur (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 July 1966
Type
Dovecot
OS grid reference
NT 217 690
Coordinates
55.90848, -3.25369
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The dovecot at Colinton Castle, located on Colinton Road in Edinburgh, dates back to the 17th century. It is a single chamber, rectangular-plan structure with a gabled roof and a low, arched entrance on the east gable. The building is constructed of random rubble and features long and short quoins, as well as a stringcourse and remnants of an eaves course. Inside, there are stone nesting boxes along all the walls. The dovecot was originally crowstepped, but the walls are now in a ruinous state and heavily overgrown, and the structure is roofless.

Local climate

Dovecot, Colinton Castle, Colinton Road, 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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