Lochend Park, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Dovecot.

Lochend Park, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
over-steeple-rye
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 December 1970
Type
Dovecot
OS grid reference
NT 276 749
Coordinates
55.9622, -3.16077
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Lochend Park in Edinburgh features a 16th-century beehive-type dovecot made of rubble stone. It has a rat-course alighting ledge at the midpoint and a circular opening in the roof. There is a large entrance on the east side, and remnants of stone pigeon hole ledges can still be seen inside. The dovecot has been altered; its top has been heightened with a collar of masonry, and a window above the rat-course has been blocked.

Local climate

Lochend Park, 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 76% 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 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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