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
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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