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Latitude: 57.5972 / 57°35'49"N
Longitude: -4.4233 / 4°25'23"W
OS Eastings: 255269
OS Northings: 858939
OS Grid: NH552589
Mapcode National: GBR H8GN.0LZ
Mapcode Global: WH3DP.09YR
Plus Code: 9C9QHHWG+VM
Entry Name: Dovecot, Dingwall Castle, Castle Street, Dingwall
Listing Name: Castle Street, Dovecote
Listing Date: 6 October 1978
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 360456
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB24498
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200360456
Location: Dingwall
County: Highland
Town: Dingwall
Electoral Ward: Dingwall and Seaforth
Traditional County: Ross-shire
Tagged with: Dovecote
Circa 1825. Squat 2 stage crenellated octagonal folly dovecote;
red ashlar sandstone; entrances at north in ground and 1st
floor; blind cruciform arrow loops in ground floor, round
headed openings in each face of 1st stage, blind to north and
east. 27 nesting boxes within, and small fireplace in ground
floor.
Would have originally been ceiled between ground and 1st floor
each floor with own entrance. Ground floor possibly served as
h<> houses with wooden boxes Probably built within the former
curtilage of Dingwall Castle from which it is now separate. Does
not appear on Wood's map Dingwall of 1821.
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