Kilrie Dovecot is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 June 1973.
Kilrie Dovecot
- WRENN ID
- pitched-granite-poplar
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 18 June 1973
- OS grid reference
- NT 243 896
- Coordinates
- 56.09381, -3.2179
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Kilrie Dovecot is a rectangular, 17th-century (dated 1684) single-chamber lectern dovecot. It has a crowstepped design with a stepped rat course functioning as an alighting ledge, topped with seven weathered stone finials. The exterior is constructed of rubble with dressed ashlar quoins. A raised inscription, 'BC 1684', is carved above the central south-facing doorway, which features chamfered arrises and a metal yett. The roof is slate-covered and includes flight holes in a raised course. Inside, the dovecot contains 964 stone nesting boxes. Architectural details include beak skewputts and crowsteps. See Niven Robertson’s Old Dovecotes, page 200, for further details.
Local climate
Kilrie Dovecot 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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