Newton Dovecot, Newton House, Millerhill is a Grade B listed building in the Midlothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 January 1971. Dovecot.
Newton Dovecot, Newton House, Millerhill
- WRENN ID
- slow-corridor-thunder
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Midlothian
- Constituency
- Midlothian MP: Kirsty McNeill (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 January 1971
- Type
- Dovecot
- OS grid reference
- NT 332 697
- Coordinates
- 55.91616, -3.06906
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Newton Dovecot, located at Newton House in Millerhill, is a 16th-century, three-stage circular tower that was later converted into a dovecot. The structure is built from coursed rubble.
On the northwest elevation, there is a stone entrance that leads to a vaulted basement, which features blinded shot holes that are remnants from a battle or siege. An external stone staircase provides access to the second stage, allowing entry to the upper stage from the inside.
The basement level has three blinded shot holes, and there are gun loops on the northwest elevation. The dovecot is topped with a later conical slate roof, which is adorned with a metal ball and spike finial.
The interior, not seen since 2000, features both upper stages containing 367 nest holes made from vertical partitions of red sandstone arranged in 13 tiers.
Local climate
Newton Dovecot, Newton House, Millerhill 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 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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