Dovecot, Carron House, The Avenue, Carronshore is a Grade B listed building in the Falkirk local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 October 1972.
Dovecot, Carron House, The Avenue, Carronshore
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-porch-bracken
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Falkirk
- Constituency
- Alloa and Grangemouth MP: Brian Leishman (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1972
- OS grid reference
- NS 897 826
- Coordinates
- 56.02422, -3.77034
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is an 18th-century brick dovecot, originally located at Carron House in Carronshore. The dovecot is octagonal in shape. It has suffered damage, with the roof now absent, some remaining parapet sections, and internal deterioration. It is described in "Old Dovecots of Scotland" by Niven Robertson.
Local climate
Dovecot, Carron House, The Avenue, Carronshore sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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