Dovecot, Garden House, 9 The Old Orchard, Limekilns is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 December 1971. Doocot. 2 related planning applications.
Dovecot, Garden House, 9 The Old Orchard, Limekilns
- WRENN ID
- ruined-timber-sorrel
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Dunfermline and Dollar MP: Graeme Downie (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 31 December 1971
- Type
- Doocot
- Address
- Dovecot, Garden House, 9 The Old Orchard, Limekilns, KY11 3HS
- OS grid reference
- NT 078 834
- Coordinates
- 56.03496, -3.4807
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Dovecot at Garden House, located at 9 The Old Orchard in Limekilns, dates from the mid to late 17th century and is a single-bay lectern doocot. The southeast elevation features exposed coursed stone, while the southwest and northwest elevations are finished with harling. A continuous dressed stone string course runs around the building, stepped at the gables, and there is a moulded eaves course.
On the southwest elevation, which serves as the entrance, there is a central low doorway with a replacement boarded door set in a stone surround. Above this doorway, an oval flight hole has been blocked. The northwest elevation also has an oval flight hole situated above the string course. The northeast elevation was not visible during the 2000 inspection, and the southwest elevation is plain.
Inside, the stone nesting boxes remain intact. The roof is a south-facing monopitch design, covered with slates and featuring ridge finials, crowstepped gables, and moulded skewputts.
Local climate
Dovecot, Garden House, 9 The Old Orchard, Limekilns 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 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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