Dovecot, Durie Home Farm is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 December 1972. Dovecot.
Dovecot, Durie Home Farm
- WRENN ID
- former-plinth-indigo
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 11 December 1972
- Type
- Dovecot
- OS grid reference
- NO 370 023
- Coordinates
- 56.20995, -3.0158
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Dovecot at Durie Home Farm is an 18th-century structure that incorporates earlier materials. It features a two-stage, octagonal design with concave sides and is constructed from large sandstone ashlar blocks. The building has a string course and battlemented parapets, standing 36 feet high.
On the south elevation, the first stage includes a curved door beneath a keystoned roundel that has flight holes, while the second stage has a similar roundel. A cornice leads to the parapet, which has six flight holes on the south and flanking faces.
Inside, there are 1627 stone nest-holes and a potence. The parapet was repaired in the late 20th century.
Local climate
Dovecot, Durie Home Farm 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 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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