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Latitude: 57.1864 / 57°11'11"N
Longitude: -3.0904 / 3°5'25"W
OS Eastings: 334191
OS Northings: 811152
OS Grid: NJ341111
Mapcode National: GBR WD.160D
Mapcode Global: WH6LN.HMMN
Plus Code: 9C9R5WP5+HR
Entry Name: Dovecot, Candacraig House
Listing Name: Candacraig, Dovecot Cottage, Dovecot
Listing Date: 16 April 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 349883
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB16167
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200349883
Location: Strathdon
County: Aberdeenshire
Electoral Ward: Aboyne, Upper Deeside and Donside
Parish: Strathdon
Traditional County: Aberdeenshire
Tagged with: Dovecote
17th century. Early square-plan dovecot of unusual design with crowstepped gables to each elevation, continuous rat course/alighting ledge, individual diamond-shaped flight holes over alighting ledges and room with hearth at ground. Harled with deep-set openings.
FURTHER DESCRIPTION: 1st stage with door to centre of S elevation and window to W; flight hole to each upper stage, N and S elevations each with stepped gablet breaking eaves, and those to E and W with full-width gables.
Modern glazing. Narrow grey slates, stone ridge, coped stack with thackstanes to each gablehead.
A rare and largely intact survival, Candacraig dovecot displays delightful individual detail in its diamond pattern flightholes and stack to each elevation. The Anderson family were granted lairdship of Candacraig in 1620, but there has been a house at the site since 1579. This has led a member of the Wallace family (former owners of Candacraig) to suggest that the dovecot may date from the 16th century. Dovecotes were so popular 'that by 1617 the right of owning or maintaining a pigeonhouse was limited by statute to lairds whose lands produced each year 'ten chalders of victuals', or about 10 tons' (Buxbaum).
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