Dovecot, Wallhouse is a Grade B listed building in the West Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 June 1980. Doocot.
Dovecot, Wallhouse
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-cloister-hemlock
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- West Lothian
- Constituency
- Bathgate and Linlithgow MP: Kirsteen Sullivan (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 June 1980
- Type
- Doocot
- OS grid reference
- NS 961 726
- Coordinates
- 55.93527, -3.66446
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Dovecot at Wallhouse is an 18th-century octagonal structure that stands two storeys tall and is built from random rubble. Currently, it is roofless. The building features a string course and has chases with hood-mouldings, as well as a round-arched entrance.
Local climate
Dovecot, Wallhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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