Dovecot, Ackergill Tower is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 April 1971.
Dovecot, Ackergill Tower
- WRENN ID
- fallow-spire-weasel
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 13 April 1971
- OS grid reference
- ND 352 545
- Coordinates
- 58.4747, -3.11259
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Dovecot at Ackergill Tower is an early 18th century structure featuring a pair of large harled rubble dovecotes that are symmetrically positioned in front of the tower. Both dovecotes face south and have high north walls with paired doorways. The south wall includes paired windows below the wallhead, and there are two rat ledges that step up at the gables, which are adorned with crowsteps. The roofs are steeply pitched and covered with Caithness slate.
The east cote is a double-chambered dovecote, containing 900 stone nesting boxes, each individually plastered at the rear. The paired front windows have been blocked, and there are two large, ruinous skylights that likely replaced former dormered or swept flightholes.
The west cote has one blocked rear door and shows no evidence of nesting boxes inside. Remnants of rough joisting suggest there was once a first floor, and a fireplace with a mural flue is located in the north wall at the first floor level. The building is currently in poor condition.
Local climate
Dovecot, Ackergill Tower receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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