Dovecot, Newbigging is a Grade B listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. Dovecot.
Dovecot, Newbigging
- WRENN ID
- ruined-flue-ebony
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Perth and Kinross
- Constituency
- Perth and Kinross-shire MP: Pete Wishart (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- Type
- Dovecot
- OS grid reference
- NO 264 251
- Coordinates
- 56.41315, -3.19361
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Dovecot at Newbigging dates from around 1730 and is a lean-to, double chamber, rectangular-plan dovecot with a crowstepped lectern design. It is constructed of random rubble with large squared sandstone quoins and some ashlar margins. The building features ball-finialled crowstepped gablets, a stepped alighting ledge, ashlar crowsteps, and moulded skewputts.
On the southeast elevation, there are two enlarged doorways, slightly grouped to the left, at ground level. Above these, the alighting ledge leads to two rectangular flight holes located close to the eaves. The pitched roof, which is slated, has partly collapsed. The interior is lined with stone nesting boxes, which are in good condition.
The southwest elevation has a paired arcaded flight hole positioned over the center step of the alighting ledge. The northwest elevation is blank, featuring a straight alighting ledge band and three gablets. The northeast elevation mirrors the southwest elevation.
Local climate
Dovecot, Newbigging receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% 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 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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