Bowbutts Doocot, Bruce Terrace, Kinghorn is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 November 1972. Dovecot.
Bowbutts Doocot, Bruce Terrace, Kinghorn
- WRENN ID
- floating-mullion-stoat
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 24 November 1972
- Type
- Dovecot
- OS grid reference
- NT 270 873
- Coordinates
- 56.0736, -3.1735
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Bowbutts Doocot, located on Bruce Terrace in Kinghorn, is likely from the 18th century and features a two-stage design. The structure is built of random rubble, with squared rubble quoins and quoin strips. It has a round-headed door that is keystoned and voussoired.
The first stage includes a square tower with a rounded-headed boarded timber door on the south side, an additional door on the west side, and a narrow opening. There are urns at the corners, although the ones on the northeast and northwest are missing. The second stage is an octagonal dovecot, which has a cast-iron tie plate on each face and culminates in a slated polygonal roof with deeply overhanging eaves and flight-holes on the south side.
Local climate
Bowbutts Doocot, Bruce Terrace, Kinghorn 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 lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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