Archaeology Notes

Event ID 688936

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO45NE 17 49094 57026

(NO 4909 5703) Dovecot (NAT)

OS 6" map, (1959).

For Old Castle of Finavon (NO 4968 5648) and Finavon Castle (country house at NO 4952 5648), see NO45NE 18 and NO45NE 32, respectively.

A well-preserved, typical 18th century dovecot - rectangular, lean-to, crowstepped, the roof surmounted on the north by ball and cone finials. It is of the double-chamber type, each chamber having its own doorway.

Visited by OS (JLD), 20 August 1958.

The west half of the roof has fallen in. All the nesting boxes are intact but subsidence is causing cracking at the SW and SE corners and the top of the west wall is crumbling.

Visited by OS field Surveyor, 6 January 1967.

This dovecot has been restored by the Angus Historic Buildings Society. It has been re-roofed with old-type slates, and re-harled. With over 2000 nest boxes, it is the largest dovecot remaining in Scotland. Pigeons have been allowed to remain in the E chamber, but the Society intend to use the W chamber for a permanent exhibition on dovecots.

Scots Magazine 1979.