Dovecot, Lesmurdie House, Pitcaveny Road, Elgin is a Grade C listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 August 1981. Dovecot.
Dovecot, Lesmurdie House, Pitcaveny Road, Elgin
- WRENN ID
- silver-rampart-gilt
- Grade
- C
- 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 225 637
- Coordinates
- 57.6569, -3.29995
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Dovecot at Lesmurdie House, located on Pitcaveny Road in Elgin, dates from the earlier 19th century. It is a hexagonal structure designed to house pigeons in the upper half. The exterior is made of coursed dressed rubble with tooled ashlar dressings. Notable features include a bandcourse, an eaves band, and a deep moulded rat course. The roof is hexagonal and covered with slate. Inside, there are 174 nesting boxes on the first floor of the dovecot.
Local climate
Dovecot, Lesmurdie House, Pitcaveny Road, Elgin sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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