Dovecot, Ravelston House, Ravelston Dykes Road, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Dovecot, converted house.
Dovecot, Ravelston House, Ravelston Dykes Road, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- tangled-loft-blackthorn
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh West MP: Christine Jardine (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1970
- Type
- Dovecot, converted house
- Address
- Dovecot, Ravelston House, Ravelston Dykes Road, Edinburgh, EH4 3PA
- OS grid reference
- NT 217 739
- Coordinates
- 55.95242, -3.25536
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Dovecot at Ravelston House on Ravelston Dykes Road in Edinburgh dates from the late 18th century and has been converted into a house. It is a two-storey, double lectern dovecot made of rubble sandstone, featuring a string course at the first floor and an eaves course.
On the south elevation, there are single windows in the outer bays at the ground floor, with matching single windows above on the first floor. The roof is adorned with two pigeon posts and ball finials at the top of the skews. To the right, there is a modern house extension.
The west elevation has a single window, while the north elevation features a blind wall that belongs to the original dovecot. The east wall has a modern extension.
The main elevation of the dovecot includes 12-pane timber sash and case windows, while the extension has modern glazing. The skews are straight. The interior was not seen in 2001.
Local climate
Dovecot, Ravelston House, Ravelston Dykes Road, Edinburgh 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings
Nearby listed buildings
- Old Ravelston House, Ravelston Dykes Road, Edinburgh
- Wall, 87 Ravelston Dykes Road, Edinburgh
- Wall Incorporating Fireplace, Ravelston Dykes Road, Edinburgh
- Ice House (of older Ravelston estate), Ravelston Dykes Road, Edinburgh
- Ravelston House, Ravelston Dykes Road, Edinburgh
- Icehouse, Ravelston House, Ravelston Dykes Road, Edinburgh
- Entrance Gateway, Ravelston House, Ravelston Dykes Road, Edinburgh
- 67 Ravelston Dykes Road, Edinburgh
- 65 Ravelston Dykes Road, Edinburgh
- Clubhouse, Murrayfield Golf Club, 43 Murrayfield Road, Edinburgh