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East Morningside House, Dovecot. View from South.
E 82143 PO
Description East Morningside House, Dovecot. View from South.
Date c. 1950
Catalogue Number E 82143 PO
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 560287
Scope and Content Detail of the south wall of the dovecot at East Morningside House, Clinton Road, Morningside, Edinburgh East Morningside House, the first mansion house to be built in Morningside, was built for the merchant Gavin Baillie in 1726. It was originally a secluded house, standing within grounds that stretched from Whitehouse Loan to Morningside Road. This 17th-century square, partially ivy-covered, dovecot, with a north-sloping timber and slate roof, predates the house. It contains 232 nesting boxes and an unusual entrance for the birds set in a window cut into the angle of the south and west walls. King James VI introduced a law forbidding the building of a dovecot beside any house which did not possess a certain amount of surrounding land, and adequate cultivated fields to support several hundred feeding pigeons. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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