Dovecot, Kirkgate, Chirnside is a Grade A listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 June 1971. Dovecot.
Dovecot, Kirkgate, Chirnside
- WRENN ID
- stony-fireplace-tallow
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 9 June 1971
- Type
- Dovecot
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
16th century. 2-stage, circular-plan, tapering beehive dovecot set in private garden, to N of Parish Church. Walls approximately 4ft thick; external circumference approximately 60ft. Heavily-pointed rubble sandstone; rubble dressings. Continuous rat course/alighting ledge approximately 10 ft above ground. Square-headed doorway set beneath ground level to N; boarded timber door; sandstone lintel; low, rubble-coped wall to front. Stone-slabbed, shallow-domed roof with central aperture; iron finial/guard missing.
INTERIOR: walls fully-lined with 382 squared sandstone nesting boxes, arranged in 16 circular rows. Each nest approximately 7' high, 7' wide and between 12' and 14' deep. Circular flight opening centred in roof. Timber poles missing.
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