Dovecot, Whitehill House is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 December 1979. Dovecot.
Dovecot, Whitehill House
- WRENN ID
- still-panel-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 178 863
- Coordinates
- 56.06262, -3.32036
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Dovecot at Whitehill House is a 17th-century single-bay, rectangular-plan lectern dovecot. It is constructed of random rubble with dressed quoins. Parts of the structure still show a stepped stone rat course or alighting ledge. The southwest elevation is buried under earth and rubble, reaching below the central stone door lintel, where remnants of the rat course and three flight holes can be seen above the door, along with further collapsed flight holes above. The plain gable walls are partially collapsed, with remains of the stepped rat course or alighting ledge visible. The northwest (rear) wall is plain and tall, featuring a rat course. The crowstepped gables on the southwest and southeast elevations are missing, and the dovecot, which once had a slate lean-to roof, has been roofless since 2002. The interior is filled with land slip and vegetation, but remains of stone nesting boxes can be found on all elevations.
Local climate
Dovecot, Whitehill House 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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