Dovecot, Cardrona House is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 February 1971. Dovecote.
Dovecot, Cardrona House
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-shingle-flax
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 23 February 1971
- Type
- Dovecote
- OS grid reference
- NT 303 379
- Coordinates
- 55.63032, -3.10718
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Dovecot at Cardrona House dates from the early to mid 18th century. It is a rectangular-plan, lectern dovecote featuring crow-stepped gables and ogee-moulded skewputts. The structure is built of random rubble with a projecting sandstone ashlar rat course and dressings, which were formerly harled.
On the south elevation, there is a centrally placed boarded timber entrance door with a moulded surround and lintel, above which is the rat course; the rest of this elevation is blind. The east and west elevations are also blind, featuring rat courses and sloped crow-stepped wallheads that terminate in ogee-putts. The west elevation has a later inset window below the rat course, with the lintel breaking the rat course.
The north elevation is blind as well, only interrupted by the rat course. There is no original glazing plan, but there is a later inset timber sash and case window with 6-pane glazing in the upper sash; the lower sash and glazing plan are missing. The dovecote has a slated penthouse roof.
Inside, the dovecote consists of a single chamber that formerly contained timber nesting-boxes, which have since been removed.
Local climate
Dovecot, Cardrona House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,070 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 65 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 43 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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