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Arthurstone House, Dovecot
Dovecot (17th Century)
Site Name Arthurstone House, Dovecot
Classification Dovecot (17th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Arthurston House; Arthurstone House Policies
Canmore ID 30873
Site Number NO24SE 69.06
NGR NO 26305 43131
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/30873
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Coupar Angus
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
NO24SE 29 26305 43131.
(NO 2630 4313) Dovecot (NAT)
OS 25" map (1901)
For architectural fragments re-used in the dovecot, see NO24SE 69.05 (4)
A rectangular dovecot of red sandstone, dated 1610 on a skew. Brought from Coupar Angus by D Reid, master mason, in 1883. SDD List
As described above. Now in use as a shed.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 17 February 1969
In a clearing to the E of the walled garden at Arthurstone (NO24SE 69.03) there is a lectern dovecot (6.4m from SW to NE by 4.4m transversely overall). It is of a random rubble build with a slated pent-roof (probably originally thatched), a cavetto eaves-course, crow-stepped gables, and a high coped-wall at the rear. A chamfered rat-ledge extends the length of the main facade and is broken-back and stepped-up on the gable-walls; bird-entry is permitted by a horizontal panel set above the rat-ledge. Opposed doorways (1.3m high) are placed central to the gable-walls; the interior has been gutted (though probably originally of two compartments) and adapted for use as a shed; an aumbry-chase is incorporated into the front and rear walls, but there are no bird boxes.
Incorporated in re-use in the masonry of the dovecot there are a number of dressed and moulded stones which have probably come from Coupar Angus Abbey (NO23NW 13); these include the fragment of a fluted cap from an engaged shaft (above the rat-ledge in the NE wall). The S skewput, which is cut with a roll and crowning fillet, bears the date 1610. At the E angle two skews are juxtaposed; the upper is a cavetto and bears a blank shield, the lower has a broad quarter-round and crown ing fillet. The dovecot, which stood originally at the W end of the United Presbyterian church in Precinct Street, Coupar Angus (NO 2223 3982), was rebuilt at Arthurstone in 1883.
Visited by RCAHMS (IMS/PC) June 1989.
