Dovecot, Chipperkyle is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1971.
Dovecot, Chipperkyle
- WRENN ID
- peeling-storey-auburn
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1971
- OS grid reference
- NX 782 689
- Coordinates
- 55.00006, -3.90453
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The estate includes an early 19th century U-plan stable yard constructed of painted rough rubble. It comprises three single-storey ranges, with the range on the right side being higher than the others. The central range features three cart entrances with depressed arches. All ranges have slate roofs. Curved rubble walls create a gateway.
Alongside the stables is a square-plan, two-storey dovecot, also rubble-built with a partially brick-lined upper level. A few nesting boxes remain, but are in poor condition. The dovecot is topped with a pyramidal slate roof, featuring stone skews along the ridges.
The stables and dovecot are set within a group of buildings that includes Chipperkyle House.
Local climate
Dovecot, Chipperkyle sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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