Dovecot, Knockando House is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 January 1971.
Dovecot, Knockando House
- WRENN ID
- over-stronghold-bramble
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Moray
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1971
- OS grid reference
- NJ 205 424
- Coordinates
- 57.46514, -3.32598
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a late 17th and early 18th century dovecot, situated within the grounds of Knockando House. The dovecot is constructed of harl-pointed rubble with tooled granite dressings. The south front features a central door with chamfered margins. A single rat course runs around the building, extending across the return gables and rear. There is a single diamond vent in each gable, and a single later piended dormer, from which the flight holes are now missing. Crowsteps are visible, and the roof is covered in local slate. The interior contains 400 stone nesting boxes. The dovecot has been documented in Robert Douglas’s The Dovecots of Moray (1931) and Elizabeth Beaton’s The Doocots of Moray (1978).
Local climate
Dovecot, Knockando House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% 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 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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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