Dovecot, Manderston House is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 February 1996. 1 related planning application.

Dovecot, Manderston House

WRENN ID
drifting-keystone-hawthorn
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Constituency
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
6 February 1996
OS grid reference
NT 811 544
Coordinates
55.78266, -2.30188
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Pavilion at Manderston House, designed by John Kinross around 1895, features a pair of sunken terraces located to the east of the house. The western terrace includes a croquet lawn with a raised viewing area, stone steps, and outbuildings, while the eastern terrace contains a tennis court. The ashlar sandstone steps are arranged in an L-plan cascade, highlighted by ball-finialled dies and accompanied by a balustrade.

The Tudor Pavilion is a garden shed constructed from variegated rubble with ashlar dressings, showcasing Elizabethan details. It has windows with moulded surrounds and leaded diamond-pane glazing. The entrance features a segmental-arched doorway with a blank panel above, flanked by a bipartite window on the right and a low ogee-arched opening on the left. A tripartite window is located on the return to the left.

The Garden House, also known as the Dovecot, is a small, square building made of rake-jointed rubble sandstone with ashlar dressings, set into a low, flat-coped wall. It has decorative lead diamond-pane glazing in a small bipartite window with a moulded surround, a cavetto cornice, and a sawtooth pyramidal roof that includes three flight-hole openings and an alighting ledge, topped with a ball finial. A door on the return to the right features chamfered arrises and is accessed through a small enclosed area with two ball finial-flanked dies. A short run of ashlar balustrade is located to the left, with a central die.

The site is enclosed by high rubble walls with battered, sawtooth coping.

Local climate

Dovecot, Manderston House receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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