Dovecot, Elvingston is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 February 1971. Dovecot.
Dovecot, Elvingston
- WRENN ID
- small-oriel-gold
- Grade
- B
- 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 461 744
- Coordinates
- 55.95981, -2.86375
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Dovecot at Elvingston is an early 18th-century, three-stage circular structure located in the northern retaining wall of a stable courtyard. It is built from roughly squared and coursed rubble, featuring two ashlar rat courses and a coped, batlemented parapet. The entrance to the courtyard includes a boarded door, and there is a bull's-eye flight-hole on each floor above. A circular stone canopy covers the roof opening, which is supported by six slender ashlar pillars. Inside, there are 764 ashlar nests with potence.
Local climate
Dovecot, Elvingston receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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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