Dovecot, Craggie Farm is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 January 1971. Dovecote.
Dovecot, Craggie Farm
- WRENN ID
- ragged-balcony-willow
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1971
- Type
- Dovecote
- OS grid reference
- NH 908 535
- Coordinates
- 57.55915, -3.82538
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Dovecot at Craggie Farm is an early 19th century cylindrical structure. It is built of harl pointed rubble with red tooled ashlar dressings. The upper stage is corbelled and features four rows of small round-headed flightholes, which have blocked impost detailing and alighting ledges; the flightholes on the northeast and northwest sides are blind. There is a doorway on the east side, and the roof is a shallow pyramidal slate design with a circular bird entrance at the center.
Inside, the dovecot is lined from floor to ceiling with 216 stone nesting boxes.
Local climate
Dovecot, Craggie Farm sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 40 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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