Dovecot, Dura House is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 June 1979.
Dovecot, Dura House
- WRENN ID
- long-pedestal-sepia
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 June 1979
- OS grid reference
- NO 413 140
- Coordinates
- 56.31484, -2.94941
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The dovecot, dated 1728, is a small, lean-to structure with a single chamber. It is built of rubble, originally harled, with dressed stone margins and features a new pantiled roof with a single row of flight holes positioned halfway down. There are no roof skews. A rat course is stepped on the sides of the building. The door lintel is inscribed with the numbers "17 19 KF 28". The original nesting boxes remain intact. The roof was restored in 1977. The dovecot has group value with Dura House.
Local climate
Dovecot, Dura House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% 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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