Dovecot House, Pleasance, Falkland is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 January 1971. House. 2 related planning applications.

Dovecot House, Pleasance, Falkland

WRENN ID
rough-lime-juniper
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 January 1971
Type
House
Address
Dovecot House, Pleasance, Falkland, KY15 7AN
OS grid reference
NO 254 074
Coordinates
56.25337, -3.20469
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Dovecot House, located on Pleasance in Falkland, dates from the mid-19th century. It is a two-storey building featuring two windows and a central door. The front is made of stugged coursed squared rubble, while the rest of the structure is constructed from rubble. The house has two masonry gabled dormer heads and a slated gable facing the street. At the rear, there is a lean-to outshot.

Local climate

Dovecot House, Pleasance, Falkland receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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