Nisbet Dovecot is a Grade A listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 June 1971. Dovecot.
Nisbet Dovecot
- WRENN ID
- plain-pilaster-starling
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 9 June 1971
- Type
- Dovecot
- OS grid reference
- NT 796 506
- Coordinates
- 55.74849, -2.3257
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Nisbet Dovecot is a unique, later 18th-century dovecot with a pentagon plan and three stages. The southwest elevation features droved ashlar stone with polished dressings, while the other elevations are made of broadly-broached sandstone with droved ashlar dressings. It has a base course, a band course at the spring point of the first stage, and drainage spouts beneath the cornice on all sides except the southwest. The structure is topped with a mutuled cornice and droved ashlar coped castellations.
On the southeast elevation, there is a door opening at the ground level, a pointed-arched window at the first stage, and recessed flightholes at the second stage. The roof is piended and made of ashlar, featuring an ashlar ball finial at the apex.
Inside, the dovecot has harl-pointed sandstone rubble and retains some timber roosting boxes from 1996. The ceiling is stone vaulted.
Local climate
Nisbet Dovecot receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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