Caiplie Dovecot is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 September 1980.
Caiplie Dovecot
- WRENN ID
- ghost-moat-torch
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 September 1980
- OS grid reference
- NO 587 055
- Coordinates
- 56.24059, -2.66667
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Caiplie Dovecot is a 1739-dated dovecot, a single-chamber building of a lean-to type. It has crow-stepped gables and a stepped rat course. There is a single entrance in the centre of the south front. The building is constructed of rubble with ashlar dressings, and is currently roofless, with its nesting boxes partially collapsed.
Local climate
Caiplie Dovecot receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% 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 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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