Dolphingstone Doocot is a Grade A listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 February 1971. Dovecot.
Dolphingstone Doocot
- WRENN ID
- worn-basalt-aspen
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Constituency
- Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1971
- Type
- Dovecot
- OS grid reference
- NT 381 727
- Coordinates
- 55.94385, -2.99143
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Dolphingstone Doocot is a 17th-century, three-stage beehive-shaped dovecot made of sandstone rubble. It features a pair of thumbnail-bead rat courses that separate the stages and has evenly arranged water-spouts at the cornice level. There is a doorway located on the southeast side, and the middle stage has a pair of square openings that are randomly arranged, also on the southeast side.
Local climate
Dolphingstone Doocot receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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