Dovecot, Dunbarney House is a Grade B listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. Doocot.
Dovecot, Dunbarney House
- WRENN ID
- winter-cupola-hemlock
- 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
- Doocot
- OS grid reference
- NO 110 186
- Coordinates
- 56.35151, -3.44165
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Dovecot at Dunbarney House dates from the 16th century and is built from rubble. It features crow-stepped gables and a pantiled roof, with a rat course that steps at the gables. There is one circular opening above the rat course and two circular openings below it.
Local climate
Dovecot, Dunbarney House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 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 68 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% 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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