Warsetter Dovecot, Sanday is a Grade B listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 December 1971. Doocot.
Warsetter Dovecot, Sanday
- WRENN ID
- lesser-forge-smoke
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Orkney Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 8 December 1971
- Type
- Doocot
- OS grid reference
- HY 630 377
- Coordinates
- 59.22443, -2.64947
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Warsetter Dovecot is a 17th-century square-plan doocot made of harl-pointed rubble. It features a gabled north elevation and a piended roof on the south side. The date '1613' is displayed above the pyramidally-arranged nest holes on the north gable, which also has a landing ledge below. A weather vane is mounted on a cast-iron support at the gablehead. The west elevation has a boarded door, while the south side includes a rooflight and paired ventilation holes. The roof is traditionally covered with graded stone tiles. The interior was not seen in 1998.
Local climate
Warsetter Dovecot, Sanday sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% 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 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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