Dovecot, 6 Sands Place, Aberdour is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 December 1979. Dovecot.
Dovecot, 6 Sands Place, Aberdour
- WRENN ID
- narrow-buttress-bone
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 19 December 1979
- Type
- Dovecot
- OS grid reference
- NT 187 851
- Coordinates
- 56.05248, -3.30624
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The building is a square-plan lectern dovecot dating from the late 17th to early 18th century. It is constructed of random rubble, with some areas harled and dressed quoins. There is a stepped stone rat course or alighting ledge in parts. The entrance on the southwest side is buried due to a land slip, featuring a central stone door lintel and a renovated relieving arch above. There are remnants of the rat course or alighting ledge in various locations. The northwest and southeast walls are plain and also have a stepped rat course or alighting ledge. A square opening is located to the left of the northeast elevation. The dovecot has crowstepped gables and a partially moulded skewputt on the northwest elevation. It previously had a pantiled lean-to roof, which has since been removed as of 2002. The interior is now infilled with land slip and vegetation.
Local climate
Dovecot, 6 Sands Place, Aberdour receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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