Doonside Dovecot, Doonside Estate, Alloway, Ayr is a Grade B listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 September 2000. Dovecot.

Doonside Dovecot, Doonside Estate, Alloway, Ayr

WRENN ID
watchful-vault-fog
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
South Ayrshire
Constituency
Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock MP: Elaine Stewart (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
4 September 2000
Type
Dovecot
OS grid reference
NS 334 175
Coordinates
55.42337, -4.63393
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Doonside Dovecot is a later 19th-century square-plan, three-stage lectern dovecot located on the Doonside Estate in Alloway, Ayr. It is constructed from cement harled brick, featuring red sandstone strip quoins, window dressings, and elements of the first stage, along with concrete slab rat courses, coping, and cills. The first stage has a round-arched arcade with impost detail, and there is a rat course above it. The second stage includes window openings on the north and east sides, with three flight holes at the base of the eastern side and a rat course above. The walls rise to all sides except the south elevation of the third stage, which is topped with a crenellated parapet.

Local climate

Doonside Dovecot, Doonside Estate, Alloway, Ayr sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,520 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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