Dovecot, Foxhall, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1971. Dovecot.
Dovecot, Foxhall, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- woven-steel-spring
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh West MP: Christine Jardine (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1971
- Type
- Dovecot
- OS grid reference
- NT 132 741
- Coordinates
- 55.95218, -3.39111
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Dovecot at Foxhall, Edinburgh, is an earlier 18th-century, two-stage lectern dovecot built from rubble with ashlar dressings, quoins, and a rat-course. It has a square plan and is situated on rising ground, aligned from northeast to southwest.
On the northeast elevation, there is a door at ground level with a stone surround. The northwest elevation also features a ground-level door with a stone surround. The southwest elevation has a small arched opening above the rat course and six flight holes that are placed dormer-like in the slope of the roof. A ball finial is located on the eastern stack.
The roof is covered with grey slate and features crow-stepped gables with console skewputts, a stone roof ridge, and a pyramidal finial.
The interior was not seen in April 1992 but is reported to be intact and is currently used as a store. It is said to have approximately 679 flight holes.
Local climate
Dovecot, Foxhall, Edinburgh receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% 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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