Colinswell Dovecot, Kirkton, Burntisland is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 September 1979. Dovecot.

Colinswell Dovecot, Kirkton, Burntisland

WRENN ID
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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
10 September 1979
Type
Dovecot
OS grid reference
NT 229 862
Coordinates
56.06262, -3.23855
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Colinswell Dovecot is an 18th-century small rectangular roofless lectern dovecot. It features long and short ashlar quoins and coped skews, along with a rat course. The north wall has some stone nesting boxes lining it. The south wall, which originally served as the entrance, is in poor condition.

Local climate

Colinswell Dovecot, Kirkton, Burntisland receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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