Monteviot House, Dovecot

NT62SE 9 65299 24572

Ice-house (NAT).

OS 6"map, Roxburghshire, 1st ed.,(1859).

(NT 6529 2456) Dovecot (NAT).

OS 6"map, Roxburghshire, (1923).

For Monteviot House, see NT62SW 54.

Dovecot, Monteviot House. A circular rubble-built dovecot, with a diameter of 20ft measured within walls about 3ft thick, stands on a mound on the left bank of the Teviot a quarter of a mile SE of the mansion. While the lower part may be as old as the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries, the upper part, from the string-course to the corbelled parapet and superstructure, is comparatively modern. The round-arched doorway faces N. The nests are complete, but have probably been renewed. The circular cavity in the floor presumably held the potence.

RCAHMS 1956, visited 26 March 1938.

As described by RCAHMS, the OS 6"map, Roxburghshire, 1859 must be in error as it is most unlikely that this feature was ever an ice-house.

Visited by OS(WDJ) 19 January 1967.

A circular rubble-built dovecot, with a diameter of 20ft measured within walls about 3ft thick, stands on a mound on the left bank of the Teviot a quarter of a mile SE of the mansion. While the lower part may be as old as the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries, the upper part, from the string-course to the corbelled parapet and superstructure, is comparatively modern. The round-arched doorway faces N. (RCAHMS)