Dovecot, Malleny House, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 January 1971. Dovecot.

Dovecot, Malleny House, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
quiet-pediment-equinox
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh South West MP: Dr Scott Arthur (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
22 January 1971
Type
Dovecot
OS grid reference
NT 165 665
Coordinates
55.88462, -3.3364
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The dovecot at Malleny House, located in Edinburgh, dates from the earlier 18th century. It has a rectangular plan and is built in two stages with crowstepped gables. Positioned to the southeast of the main front of Malleny House, the structure is constructed of rubble with partial harling, featuring ashlar margins and dressings, stugged quoins, and a rat course. The eaves course continues as a string course at the gables. On the northeast gable, there is a piended dormer with nine flight-holes, and a low door is situated on the southwest elevation. The dovecot contains 915 nesting boxes and is topped with a grey slate roof, crowstepped gables, and beak skewputts.

Local climate

Dovecot, Malleny House, 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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