Dovecot, Pitreavie Castle is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 January 1971. Dovecot.

Dovecot, Pitreavie Castle

WRENN ID
calm-remnant-summer
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Dunfermline and Dollar MP: Graeme Downie (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 January 1971
Type
Dovecot
OS grid reference
NT 118 848
Coordinates
56.04877, -3.41683
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The dovecot at Pitreavie Castle is likely from the early 18th century and has a rectangular plan with harled walls. It features a grey slate lean-to roof that has crowstepped coping and beaked skewputts on either side. The entrance is located on the south side and is secured with an iron yett. There is a rat ledge at the upper level, and a row of nine entrance holes is positioned along the middle of the roof pitch.

Local climate

Dovecot, Pitreavie Castle receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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