Architecture Notes

Event ID 834147

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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NT26NE 54.06 29392 65742

(NT 2938 6574) Dovecot (NAT)

OS 6" map (1938)

This cylindrical dovecot was probably adapted from an old tower. The roof, missing, must have been a ridge one as the walls rise east and west with a round curve to become lower in front and behind (N and S); where the rise begins, on each side, is a skewput. It has no nests.

A N Robertson 1957

This tower is generally as described. It has two doors, one above the other on its S side while high up on the E is a small, barred, circular window. There are portions of walling on the E and W sides showing that it has been built into the boundary well. No trace of nesting boxes could be found and it is more likely to have been a watch tower. (It is listed by the SDD as a (?) 18th century dovecot).

Visited by OS (SFS) 23 October 1975

NMRS REFERENCE:

Built 1738 as terminal point of a vista up through hedges to the top of a hill.

EXTERNAL REFERENCE:

Scottish Records Office - Penicuik Papers - information on layout of garden