Dovecot, Ballindalloch Castle is a Grade A listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1972.

Dovecot, Ballindalloch Castle

WRENN ID
brooding-threshold-wagtail
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Moray
Constituency
Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
22 February 1972
OS grid reference
NJ 177 367
Coordinates
57.41349, -3.37087
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This is a substantial, south-facing dovecot dated 1696, located at Ballindalloch Castle. The dovecot is rectangular and constructed of harl-pointed rubble with tooled rubble margins. A central door is present, with a small datestone positioned above it. There’s a pair of square flightholes above the upper rat course (the lower course is missing), and further flightholes in the west gable. The roof is piended and clad in Banffshire slate, with a later weatherboard ridge cupola featuring 16 small flightholes and a pyramidal slate roof.

The interior is divided into two chambers and lined with 844 stone slab nesting boxes. A datestone inscribed with the letter "B" is also present. The dovecot was upgraded from a B-listed building to an A-listed building on 9 November 1987. Further information can be found in Elizabeth Beaton’s “The Doocots of Moray” (1978), page 5.

Local climate

Dovecot, Ballindalloch Castle sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 70 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 53 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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