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Upper Largo, Largo Home Farm, Dovecot
Dovecot (17th Century)
Site Name Upper Largo, Largo Home Farm, Dovecot
Classification Dovecot (17th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Largo House, Home Farm
Canmore ID 32851
Site Number NO40SW 8
NGR NO 41827 03581
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/32851
- Council Fife
- Parish Largo
- Former Region Fife
- Former District North East Fife
- Former County Fife
NO40SW 8 41827 03581
Dovecot - At the home farm of Largo House is an oblong 17th century dovecot, measuring externally 25 3/4 by 16 1/3ft, with crow-stepped flanks, built of rubble and harled.
RCAHMS 1933.
NO 4182 0357. The dovecot now roofless, is as described by RCAHMS.
Visited by OS (EGC), 16 October 1962.
Lectern-type doocot at the west approach to Largo Home Farm, built in whin and boulder rubble with ashlar dressings and formerly harled. The doocot features a central door, crowstepped gables and a rat course stepped up the sides. It retains its stone nesting boxes, though the roof is now lost. (Historic Scotland)
Field Visit (3 August 1927)
Dovecot.
At the home farm of Largo House is an oblong 17th-century dovecot, measuring externally 25 ¾ by 16 1/3 feet, with crow-stepped flanks, built of rubble and harled. The entrance faces south, and there is one string-course.
RCAHMS 1933, visited 3 August 1927.
