Dovecot, Crawford Priory is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 March 1984.

Dovecot, Crawford Priory

WRENN ID
waning-kitchen-bone
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
1 March 1984
OS grid reference
NO 347 113
Coordinates
56.29039, -3.05573
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This is an early 19th-century dovecot located within the grounds of Crawford Priory. It is rectangular in plan and gabled. The dovecot was constructed using rubble masonry with ashlar dressings. The south gable features distinctive stugged ashlar, with V-channeling at the lower level and rusticated quoins above. This gable contains five tiers of pointed-headed flight holes. A door is flanked by windows on the west wall, and a rectangular panel above this contains three tiers of similar flight holes. The building has skews, finialed gables, and a slate roof.

Local climate

Dovecot, Crawford Priory receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% 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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