Dovecot, Huntington is a Grade A listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 February 1971. Dovecot.
Dovecot, Huntington
- WRENN ID
- carved-eave-gilt
- 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 485 748
- Coordinates
- 55.96421, -2.82633
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The dovecot in Huntington dates from around 1750 and is a two-stage classical square structure. It is harled, featuring ashlar or moulded margins and quoins, with an ashlar frontispiece on the first floor. The ground floor has a base course and is topped by a band course with a cornice on the south side. There is a central doorway on the south with a simple architrave, where a modern door has been inserted for safety. The east and west sides have blind windows, while the north elevation includes three blind doorways.
The first floor is pilastered and pedimented at the front, featuring a central moulded and arched blind window. The pediment has flight holes and is topped with three urn finials. Similar blind windows are present in the other openings, including a main boarded door on the east side. A cornice runs at eaves level on three sides, with a band course at the rear. The roof is pitched, gabled, and slated, with a pediment forming the skew on the south and a plain skew on the north, which is topped by a carved vase-shaped stone chimneystack. The interior is largely derelict, but some nestboxes remain.
Local climate
Dovecot, Huntington receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% 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 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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