Dovecot, Dunrobin Castle is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 March 1971.
Dovecot, Dunrobin Castle
- WRENN ID
- night-railing-sage
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1971
- OS grid reference
- NC 849 007
- Coordinates
- 57.98081, -3.94686
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is an earlier or mid-18th century dovecot, a tall, square structure. It is built of harl-pointed coursed rubble. The east elevation features a simple, chamfered architrave above the entrance. The roof is a pyramidal slate roof with a swept dormer on the south side and flight holes; the remains of an apex cupola are also present.
The interior is circular and features walls lined with over 500 stone nesting boxes, commencing approximately 3 feet from the ground. A potence, a revolving ladder, survives within the dovecot. According to an unpublished manuscript by A. Niven Robertson from around 1958, this is an example of an old Scottish dovecot.
Local climate
Dovecot, Dunrobin Castle receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% 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 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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