Dovecot, Dale House, Westerdale is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 April 1971.
Dovecot, Dale House, Westerdale
- WRENN ID
- long-postern-bone
- 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 129 521
- Coordinates
- 58.44854, -3.49304
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a 17th or early 18th century dovecote, constructed of rubble stone in a beehive shape, divided into four stages. It features a wide circular opening at the apex, serving as the pigeon entrance. The dovecote has three roughly dressed rubble courses and a coping stone at the apex. A low entrance is located on the east side, leading to a slightly sunken floor with a low ledge encircling the base. From this ledge, 350 stone nesting boxes extend upwards to the apex.
Adjacent to the dovecote is a walled garden, likely dating to the earlier 19th century. The garden is square in shape and has walls built of rubble stone with stone slab coping. Entrances are situated on the north and west sides. The west wall is broken near the center to accommodate the dovecote.
References: Elizabeth Beaton, THE DOOCOTS OF CAITHNESS (1980) p.7.
Local climate
Dovecot, Dale House, Westerdale 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 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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