Doocot, Ruchlaw House is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 February 1971. Dovecot.
Doocot, Ruchlaw House
- WRENN ID
- winding-basalt-sparrow
- 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 617 740
- Coordinates
- 55.95757, -2.61395
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Doocot at Ruchlaw House is probably from the 17th century and is designed as a lectern dovecot. It measures approximately 26 feet by 15 feet in plan and stands 30 feet high at the rear. The structure is built from red sandstone rubble and features natural harling with a grey slate roof. A rat course encircles the dovecot and extends to the north at the ridge. On the south side, there are two doorways, each with two square flight-holes above them, and two sets of ten flight-holes located at the midpoint of the south pitch. Inside, there are 1,394 nesting boxes. At the rear, there is a slightly later lean-to rubble addition that serves as a buttress to the north, featuring a pantile roof and slate eaves easing course.
Local climate
Doocot, Ruchlaw House receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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