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Latitude: 57.6599 / 57°39'35"N
Longitude: -3.3741 / 3°22'26"W
OS Eastings: 318106
OS Northings: 864165
OS Grid: NJ181641
Mapcode National: GBR L81G.T8L
Mapcode Global: WH6J6.4QJQ
Plus Code: 9C9RMJ5G+X8
Entry Name: Dovecot, Quarrywood
Listing Name: New Spynie, Dovecot
Listing Date: 26 January 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 349216
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB15570
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Quarrywood, Dovecot
ID on this website: 200349216
Location: Spynie
County: Moray
Electoral Ward: Heldon and Laich
Parish: Spynie
Traditional County: Morayshire
Tagged with: Dovecote
Circa 1600. Almost square, 17' x 16'3" (5.18 x 4.95m);
harled rubble, ashlar margins and dressings. Blocked entrance
to dovecot in centre of W gable with chamfered margins; single
air vent in each gable; deep rat course at wallhead
continuing across gables.
Crowsteps; heavy stone slab roof supported on gable walls and
by 2 masonry vaulted arches; central ridge cupola also
constructed from stone slabs.
Later dormer entrance (circa 1905); 2 metal bands strengthen
walls.
INTERIOR: no nesting boxes survive; the interior lined with
mortar to serve as water cistern.
Robert Douglas, THE DOVECOTES OF MORAY (1931), pp. 38-9.
Elizabeth Beaton, THE DOOCOTS OF MORAY (1978), p. 21.
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