Dovecot, Eglinton Country Park is a Grade B listed building in the North Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 April 1971.
Dovecot, Eglinton Country Park
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-column-pine
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- North Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Central Ayrshire MP: Alan Gemmell (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 April 1971
- OS grid reference
- NS 328 415
- Coordinates
- 55.6384, -4.65746
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is an early 19th century dovecot, located at Home Farm within Eglinton Country Park. It is a lean-to structure built of random stonework with ashlar dressings. A pointed Gothic doorway is present, flanked by incised crosses. The ground floor has been converted into a tractor shed. A row of pigeon entrances is visible at eave level, supported by a stone ledge fixed to brackets.
Local climate
Dovecot, Eglinton Country Park sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,450 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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