Dovecot, Culloden House is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. Dovecote.
Dovecot, Culloden House
- WRENN ID
- drifting-ashlar-winter
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- Type
- Dovecote
- OS grid reference
- NH 720 461
- Coordinates
- 57.48775, -4.13608
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Dovecot at Culloden House dates from around 1788 and is a tall octagonal structure built of pinned rubble with tooled ashlar dressings. It features a central entrance on the south side with an oval oculus above. There are three gablet dormers with timber fronts, each containing 17 flight holes and alighting ledges, located at the southeast, south, and southwest sides of the building. A rat course encircles the dovecot between the lintel below the oculus, and the base course includes long and short angle detailing. The roof is facetted with slate and topped with an apex finial.
Inside, there are approximately 630 regular stone nesting boxes arranged in a consistent formation, starting about 3 feet from the ground. A central potence tree stands on a circular stone plinth that is slotted into a crossbeam at the upper end, although no ladder survives.
Local climate
Dovecot, Culloden House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 960 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 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 38 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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