Dovecot, Busta House Hotel, Brae is a Grade B listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 August 1971. Country house.
Dovecot, Busta House Hotel, Brae
- WRENN ID
- waning-jade-jackdaw
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Shetland Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 13 August 1971
- Type
- Country house
- OS grid reference
- HU 347 669
- Coordinates
- 60.3852, -1.37149
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Dovecot, Busta House Hotel, Brae
This dovecot is a circular structure built of granite rubble with harled pointing. It features a low doorway with a timber lintel on its north side. Flight holes and ledges are positioned below the wallhead on the south side, and a small number of slate-floored nesting boxes are set into the wall within.
Local climate
Dovecot, Busta House Hotel, Brae sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,150 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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