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
Country: Scotland
Date first listed: 5 October 1971
Type: Dovecote
Source: Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

Circa 1788. Tall octagonal dovecote; pinned rubble, tooled

ashlar dressings. Centre ground floor entrance at S with

oval occulus above. 3 gablet dormers with timber fronts and

each with 17 flight holes and alighting ledges rise from

wallhead at SE, S and SW. Rat course encircles building

between lintel below occulus. Base course, long and short

angle detailing; facetted slate roof with apex finial.

Interior; circa 630 regular stone nesting boxes in regular

formation starting roughly 3' from ground level. Centre

potence tree stands on circular stone plinth slotted into

crossbeam at upper end. (No ladder survives).

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