Dovecot, Bordie Farm is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 December 1979. Doocot.

Dovecot, Bordie Farm

WRENN ID
floating-marble-grain
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Dunfermline and Dollar MP: Graeme Downie (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
19 December 1979
Type
Doocot
OS grid reference
NS 955 867
Coordinates
56.06221, -3.67873
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Dovecot at Bordie Farm is a rectangular, lean-to structure from the 17th century. It features a double chamber and is constructed of rubble. The building is currently roofless and has crowstepped flanks. There are 569 nest-holes located in the eastern chamber and 554 in the western chamber.

Local climate

Dovecot, Bordie Farm sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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