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Architecture Notes
Event ID 834147
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Architecture Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/834147
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
