Dovecot, Binny House is a Grade B listed building in the West Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1971.
Dovecot, Binny House
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-porch-russet
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- West Lothian
- Constituency
- Livingston MP: Gregor Poynton (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1971
- OS grid reference
- NT 052 733
- Coordinates
- 55.94426, -3.51854
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is an 18th-century dovecote located at Binny House. It is a small, oblong building constructed of random rubble and has a piended (hipped) slate roof. A wooden dormer is present, featuring flight holes for the birds.
Local climate
Dovecot, Binny House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% 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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- No sale records on file
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