Dovecot, Dallars House is a Grade B listed building in the East Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 April 1971.
Dovecot, Dallars House
- WRENN ID
- sombre-ashlar-thyme
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- East Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Kilmarnock and Loudoun MP: Lillian Jones (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 April 1971
- OS grid reference
- NS 460 336
- Coordinates
- 55.57186, -4.44322
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Dallars Mains, also known as Dallars House, features a courtyard type design with a creamwashed finish. In the center of the courtyard stands a hexagonal dovecote made of pink coloured coursed stone blocks with ashlar dressings. The upper stage of the dovecote includes a pedimented loft entrance and a stone shelf. It is topped with a pointed slate roof and a finial.
Local climate
Dovecot, Dallars House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,350 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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