Dovecot, Finnarts Holm is a Grade B listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 April 1971.
Dovecot, Finnarts Holm
- WRENN ID
- tenth-cellar-bramble
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- South Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock MP: Elaine Stewart (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 April 1971
- OS grid reference
- NX 055 735
- Coordinates
- 55.01798, -5.04279
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a cylindrical dovecot situated on Finnarts Holm. It has a conical slate roof with a simple lead capping and a small ball finial. The interior is now gutted, but the dovecot originally comprised two stages, with a ground floor door and a window opening above leading to the pigeon loft.
Local climate
Dovecot, Finnarts Holm sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,330 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% 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 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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