Inch Dovecot, Gilmerton Road, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 July 1966. Doocot.
Inch Dovecot, Gilmerton Road, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- pitched-footing-jet
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh South MP: Ian Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 July 1966
- Type
- Doocot
- OS grid reference
- NT 273 706
- Coordinates
- 55.923, -3.16456
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Inch Dovecot, located on Gilmerton Road in Edinburgh, is an early 17th century, two-chambered, symmetrical, rectangular-plan lectern doocot built from pink sandstone rubble. It features boarded doors for each chamber, a rat course above, and crowsteps on the side walls. A central recessed rectangular panel rat course is present. The doocot has five flight holes at eaves level above the doorways and sixteen flight holes in each chamber set within the mid-roof band. The roof is covered with pantiles and has beak skewputts.
The interior, observed in 2015, includes a concrete floor and a timber roof, with over 2,000 stone nesting boxes extending from floor to ceiling on all sides of each chamber.
Local climate
Inch Dovecot, Gilmerton 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 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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