Durn House Doocot
Date 23 June 2011
Event ID 916387
Category Management
Type Site Management
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/916387
Tall rectangular rubble dovecot now coated with modern harl covering boulder footings and single heavy rat course. Longer elevations N and S. Doorway with ashlar margins in centre of S front; smaller shuttered pigeon entrance above; single round vent in each gable. Crowsteps; slate roof. INTERIOR: about 500 nesting boxes lined interior.
There was a house at Durn before the present mansion and this dovecot is the only surviving building indicating an earlier dwelling of some pretension. The slating is recent; probably the cote would have had swept dormers with flight holes for the birds besides flight holes pierced in the (now) shuttered entrance. (Historic Scotland)
