Dovecot, New Mills Crossing is a Grade B listed building in the Clackmannanshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 June 1960. Doocot.
Dovecot, New Mills Crossing
- WRENN ID
- last-chimney-rook
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Clackmannanshire
- Constituency
- Alloa and Grangemouth MP: Brian Leishman (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 9 June 1960
- Type
- Doocot
- OS grid reference
- NS 850 946
- Coordinates
- 56.13064, -3.8515
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Dovecot at New Mills Crossing is a 17th century rectangular structure measuring 19 feet 3 inches by 17 feet 3 inches. It is built in a lean-to style using rubble and features a single rat course. The flanks are crowstepped, and there is a stepped upstand in the roof to accommodate pigeon entrances.
Local climate
Dovecot, New Mills Crossing sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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