Dovecot, Carriston is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 November 1972. Dovecot.
Dovecot, Carriston
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-slate-grove
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Glenrothes and Mid Fife MP: Richard Baker (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 24 November 1972
- Type
- Dovecot
- OS grid reference
- NO 324 040
- Coordinates
- 56.22386, -3.09074
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Dovecot at Carriston is an 18th-century structure featuring a double chamber and a rectangular plan, with a shallow concave northern elevation. It is designed as a crowstepped lectern dovecot, constructed from random rubble and accented with sandstone quoins. The building includes a stepped rat course or alighting ledge, a beak skewputt, and a half moon finial at the northwest corner. The entrance door is located at the center of the southern side.
Local climate
Dovecot, Carriston receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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