Dovecot, Conon Mains, Conon House is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1971. Dovecote.
Dovecot, Conon Mains, Conon House
- WRENN ID
- salt-rubble-swallow
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1971
- Type
- Dovecote
- OS grid reference
- NH 533 534
- Coordinates
- 57.54738, -4.45263
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Dovecot at Conon Mains, associated with Conon House, dates from the later 18th century. It is a tall octagonal structure built of rubble with droved ashlar margins and features a pyramidal felt roof. An ashlar rat course runs two-thirds of the way up the building, and there are groups of three flight holes at the center of each elevation. On one side, there is a small gablet dormer at the wallhead that includes four flight holes. The dovecot is topped with a stone finial and a vane with a weather cock. On the north side, there is a doorway designed for an external opening door, which has a relieving arch above it. The structure contains 600 dressed stone boxes for the doves.
Local climate
Dovecot, Conon Mains, Conon House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 42 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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