Grange Hall, Dovecot Kinloss, Scotland
Listed Building Data
Grange Hall, Dovecot has been designated a scheduled monument in Scotland with the following information. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- Historic Scotland ID
- 340846 (entity ID)
- Building ID
- 8662
- Canmore ID
- 15890
- Category
- B
- Name
- Grange Hall, Dovecot
- Parish
- Kinloss
- County
- Moray
- Easting
- 306284
- Northing
- 860782
- Date Listed
- 26 January 1971
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Probably 1805. 2-storey hexagonal dovecot with pigeon accommodation in upper storey. Pinned rubble, tooled ashlar dressings. Ground floor doorways in E and W faces, entering demi- octagonal chambers. Centre 1st floor entrance, with seating on cill for attaching removable ladder, served 1st floor pigeon loft. Continuous rat course/alighting ledge encircles dovecot at upper stage, projecting as curved ledges fronting groups of 4 flight-holes, latter piercing semi-circular ashlar panels set in blind lunettes in SW, S and SE facets of building. Piended octagonal slate roof terminating with apex ashlar mushroom-shaped finial topped by weathercock (in poor condition). INTERIOR: incomplete set of wooden nesting boxes line interior of dovecot.
Listed Building Statement of Special Interest
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Grange Hall built in 1805 on an earlier site. Dovecot probably constructed at that time as part of 'the neat accommodation for all the exigencies of a large establishment'. Ground floor rooms may have served as hen houses. Combination of pigeon and hen house in single building was a common (and final) development of the dovecot as a farm building.
Listed Building References
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
W Leslie, GENERAL VIEW OF THE AGRICULTURE OF THE COUNTIES OF NAIRN AND MORAY (1813), p.53. Robert Douglas, THE DOVECOTES OF MORAY (1931), pp.21-23. Elizabeth Beaton, THE DOOCOTS OF MORAY (1978), p.12.
