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Waterybutts, Dovecot
Dovecot (18th Century)
Site Name Waterybutts, Dovecot
Classification Dovecot (18th Century)
Canmore ID 30417
Site Number NO22NE 7.01
NGR NO 27653 25929
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/30417
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Errol
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
Field Visit (16 June 1964)
A roofless 18th century dovecot in a fair state of preservation.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 16 June 1964
Field Visit (20 June 1989)
In a field about 90m to the ENE of Waterybutts farmhouse, there is a roofless two-compartment lectern dovecot. It measures 8.68m from E to W by 4.63m transversely over walls 0.8m in thickness. The side-walls and pedimented rear-wall are crow-stepped, and each of the three pediments is crowned by a ball-finial (see also NO22NE 8); the skews are cavetto-moulded and bear the date 1733 and the initials IM. The dovecot is noteworthy for the survival of its original doors, inner gates and fittings. It once also possessed a stepped rat course, but on the side-walls this has been cut back flush with the masonry; bird-entry ports (paired) are incorporated in the side walls as well as originally in the roof. Visited by RCAHMS (IMS, PC) 20 June 1989.
