Dovecot, Waterybutts is a Grade B listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. Dovecot.
Dovecot, Waterybutts
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-corridor-kestrel
- 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 276 259
- Coordinates
- 56.41999, -3.17429
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Dovecot at Waterybutts, dated 1733, is a roofless crowstepped lectern dovecot with a double chamber and a rectangular plan. It is constructed of rubble, featuring large squared rubble quoins and some ashlar dressings. The gablets are topped with ball finials, and the ashlar crowsteps and skewputts are marked with the dates '17' and '33'.
On the southeast elevation, there are two small doorways with metal doors at ground level, along with two rectangular flight holes positioned above. The southwest elevation has a paired arcaded flight hole at the center. The northwest elevation is blank and is topped with three gablets. The northeast elevation mirrors the southwest elevation.
Inside, the dovecot is lined with stone nesting boxes.
Local climate
Dovecot, Waterybutts 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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