Roof, dormer with pigeon entrances, detail
SC 564965
Description Roof, dormer with pigeon entrances, detail
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number SC 564965
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of D 33531
Scope and Content Detail of the Dovecot at Malleny House, Currie, Edinburgh Malleny House, built for the Scott family in the first half of the 18th century, incorporates an earlier building dating from the 16th century. The house and gardens now belong to the northational Trust for Scotland. The dovecot, possibly associated with the 16th-century house, has a double-pitch slate roof and crowstepped gables. The entrance for the birds was through nine openings in three rows in a slated dormer window on the south-facing roof. In the 16th century 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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