Dovecot, Haugh Of Orton is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 January 1971. Dovecot.
Dovecot, Haugh Of Orton
- WRENN ID
- tattered-roof-amber
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Moray
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1971
- Type
- Dovecot
- OS grid reference
- NJ 315 532
- Coordinates
- 57.56447, -3.14584
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a circular dovecot built in the early to mid-18th century, constructed from rubble. It features a continuous rat course that encircles the building above the eastern doorway. The roof is made of local slate and is conical in shape, with a central flight hole that is covered by a later wooden cupola. This cupola has flight holes and is topped with a spiked ball finial.
Inside, there is a central potence with nine arms that rotates on a rubble plinth. The wooden nesting boxes are in poor condition, and all the woodwork is made of pine.
Local climate
Dovecot, Haugh Of Orton 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 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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