Dovecot, Blackwood House is a Grade B listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 January 1971. 1 related planning application.
Dovecot, Blackwood House
- WRENN ID
- watchful-sandstone-brook
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Constituency
- Hamilton and Clyde Valley MP: Imogen Walker (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1971
- Address
- Dovecot, Blackwood House, ML11 0JG
- OS grid reference
- NS 775 433
- Coordinates
- 55.66825, -3.94869
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a 17th-century dovecot, situated within the grounds of Blackwood House. A lean-to structure, it is accompanied by a modern laundry wing at the rear and a Martyrs’ tomb located within the garden.
Local climate
Dovecot, Blackwood House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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