Dovecot, New Elgin is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 August 1981. Dovecot.
Dovecot, New Elgin
- WRENN ID
- nether-marble-lark
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Moray
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 August 1981
- Type
- Dovecot
- OS grid reference
- NJ 221 618
- Coordinates
- 57.63965, -3.3059
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This 17th-century dovecot in New Elgin is a small beehive structure with three distinct stages. It is built from coursed rubble and features thin stone slab rat ledges, along with a circular stone coping at the entrance located at the apex. The doorway is chamfered, and inside, there are nearly 500 regular nesting boxes for the birds.
Local climate
Dovecot, New Elgin sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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