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The Edinburgh Evening Courant of 24th March 1804 mentions a pigeon house at Mountriddell, in the parish of Larbert. The house today is known as Larbert House. A circular building is shown immediately west of the stable block on the 1st ed OS map, and is presumably the building in question. It does not appear on the 2nd ed.
Sites and Monument Record: Larbert House Doocot (SMR 34)
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Nothing can be seen on the ground.
Sites and Monument Record: Little Kerse Doocot (SMR 35)
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Indicated on the 1860 OS map this doocot has now completely disappeared. It stood immediately N of the house and was rectangular in plan. A doocot is mentioned here in the Edinburgh Evening Courant of the 2nd February 1754.
Sites and Monument Record: Manuel Mill Doocot (SMR 36)
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Sites and Monument Record: Grange House Doocot (SMR 37)
Sites and Monument Record: Grange House Doocot (SMR 37)
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Projecting from the E end of the wall that divides the garden from the offices of Muiravonside House is a large doocot. It was restored in 1982 by a MSC project after years of neglect and use as a garden shed. It measures 19 ft 3 ins in breadth by 15 ft 5 ins in depth externally and is of the lectern type with a lean to roof sloping up between flights of crow-steps to just in front of a high wall to which it is connected by a short length of flat lead flashing. It is built of rubble with backset dressings. The recent renovation has hidden the alterations carried out to the entrance, reinstating the original. The back wall is, however, still breached by a mullioned window and a smaller shuttered window offset at a higher level. Entries for the birds are in two well built stone fronted dormers which incorporate landing ledges. Each dormer houses six arched entrance holes, and a circular hole in the pediment. There is a string-course for perching at eaves level. Only a small number of the original wooden nesting boxes survived intact. In form the doocot is 17th century, but its date of construction was considerably later. The home farm was moved from the area presently occupied by a car park to its present site in the second quarter of the 19th century and the present doocot belongs to this period. An earlier doocot is recorded in 1787 when Muiravonside House possessed "nine fire rooms, with a milk house, laundry, stables, coach-house, good garden, and dovecote".
Sites and Monument Record: Muiravonside House Doocot (SMR 38)
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The Edinburgh Evening Courant of 26th June 1782 advertised Mungall "with pigeon house, and salmon fishing in parish of Falkirk". This could be the same as Merchiston House, or the farm to the N. A circular doocot is shown to the N of the house on the 1860 OS map.
Sites and Monument Record: Mungal House Doocot (Merchiston Hall) (SMR 39)
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This doocot was an octagonal stone tower set in the centre of one side of the court of offices at the Neuk. Being in the line of the roof it was only accessible by a ladder placed against its door on the N side. The walls were of ashlar sandstone, 18 ins thick. Six sides of the doocot presented an oval recess. There were two dove holes in the S side. Inside there were 272 nesting boxes reached by a potence ladder. The house and the farm were built in 1812 by John Alexander Higgins, both were demolished in the early 1970s.
Sites and Monument Record: Neuk House Doocot (SMR 40)
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The Caledonian Mercury, 8th February 1757, advertised these buildings "with new pigeon house, one mile from Airth".
Sites and Monument Record: Newmills Doocot (SMR 41)
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A rectangular doocot is shown 180 yds S of Newton House in 1860. Nothing now remains visible.
Sites and Monument Record: Newton House Doocot (SMR 42)
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In 1860 a doocot stood immediately to the N of the present range of farm buildings. No trace of it now exists.
Sites and Monument Record: Nicolton Doocot (SMR 43)
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A map entitled "Plan of the Estate of Parkhall - The Property of J.Livingstone, Esq" has 'Dove Cote Parks' to the NE of the house.
Sites and Monument Record: Parkhall House Doocot (SMR 44)
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To the rear of the house, at the end of a small avenue of trees placed in line with the large bay window, stands a square doocot with Gothic details. On top of its walls are large battlemented blocks which would have screened the now missing low-pitched roof. An entrance faces the house, above which is a square panel containing a circle; in the quadrants so formed are the initials R/W above the date 18/14. The initials are those of Robert Warden who made alterations to the house and built the pigeon house. The entrance for the birds is in the E wall and a further doorway occurs in the S or back wall. The doocot is looking sadly neglected and requires attention soon.
Sites and Monument Record: Parkhill House Doocot (SMR 45)
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The doocot here must have been contemporary with the house built "within the last few years" and mentioned in the Edinburgh Evening Courant of 21st July 1804.
Sites and Monument Record: Polmont Park Doocot (SMR 47)
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A photograph taken in 1923 for Scottish Oils shows a tall outbuilding to the W of this farm, with a small entrance at the top. This appears to have been a doocot. Both farm and doocot have long since been demolished.
Sites and Monument Record: Powdrake Farm Doocot (SMR 48)
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In 1855 a rectangular doocot stood immediately N of the approach drive to the house within a large walled enclosure. It appears to have been demolished shortly afterwards and replaced by the remaining structure in the coach-house. Nothing can now be seen on the ground.
Sites and Monument Record: Powfoulis House Doocot (SMR 49)
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The former coachman's house posses a corbelled dovecote tower attached to its SE corner at the foot of a crow-stepped gable. It is a very pleasing example of the Scottish Baronial style current in the middle of the 19th century. The slated roof of the tower is steeply pitched and terminates in a weather vane. The lower portion has now been converted into a wardrobe, but some of the original mechanism for closing off the external entrance holes, in order to facilitate harvesting, still remains in the upper part. It formerly possessed 156 wooden nests which extended from 5 ft 6 ins above the ground up to the ceiling. Although the internal diameter is only just greater than 12 ft it also had a wooden ladder of 22 rungs. It is presently well maintained.
Sites and Monument Record: Powfoulis Stables Doocot (SMR 50)
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An early 19th century doocot once stood to the E of the house. It consisted of a square lower structure, measuring 15 ft by 12 ft, with a large segmental arch, over which was an octagonal superstructure. Each face of the superstructure had a blind Gothic window, except that on the S above the arch which was pierced by ten bird holes and provided with perching ledges. The window on the E side functioned as an entrance, reached by a ladder. The lower floor was rubble built whilst the upper storey was coursed. The slated roof was ogee shaped, surmounted by a finial composed of a metal ball on a pole. At some time a small dormer had been placed on the S side of the roof to provide additional access for the birds. Although it survived for some time after the demolition of the house, it too was demolished in c1968 by the District Council. The lower part of the structure formed the pend into the former stable block.
Sites and Monument Record: South Bantaskine House Doocot (SMR 51)
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A circular doocot built astride the S boundary wall of the farm at Bellsdyke is marked on the 1860 OS map. It is probable that this was a beehive form, but nothing remains to confirm this. It may be the doocot referred to as being part of the lands of Bellsdyke and Northmains in the E.A of the 24th August 1810.
Sites and Monument Record: South Bellsdyke Doocot (SMR 52)
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A most unusual pigeon house consisting of a 48 cm square stone column, 3.4 m tall surmounted by a stone dwelling with pitched roofs presenting a pigeon hole with a rest and a gable to each face. It probably dates to the period 1900-1910.
Sites and Monument Record: Southfield House Doocot (SMR 53)
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A 19th century octagonal doocot was placed over the entrance to the stables. It had a semicircular opening in the S side which probably contained the dove holes.
Sites and Monument Record: Stenhouse Stables Doocot (SMR 54)
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