Dovecot, Cadboll Castle

This is a mid-to-late 17th century dovecot, originally a lectern cote, located on the Cadboll Castle estate. The structure is built of rubble stone with ashlar dressings and long-and-short quoins. A small doorway is situated in the west gable, and a later doorway is positioned on the first floor above it. There are blocked square vents at ground floor level on the south and east sides. Two small sets of flight holes are visible high in both gables, alongside a single row within a shallow, swept dormer. Two rat ledges are also present. The north wall has a coped parapet topped with five ball finials (one missing) and a painted metal weathervane depicting a man in hunting dress holding a gun. The dovecot features crowsteps and worn Macleod crests on both cavetto skewputts. It has a roof of Ballachulish slate. The upper floor contains approximately 400 stone nesting boxes. Access to the ground floor chamber is not possible, and the pigeon accommodation appears to have been reduced and confined to the upper floor, now accessed via a later doorway. Worn datestones are on the lintel, and the crest on the skewputts matches that found on Cadboll House.