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Latitude: 56.1199 / 56°7'11"N
Longitude: -3.1384 / 3°8'18"W
OS Eastings: 329320
OS Northings: 692490
OS Grid: NT293924
Mapcode National: GBR 2B.LGWL
Mapcode Global: WH6RV.RFQR
Plus Code: 9C8R4V96+XM
Entry Name: Dovecot, Ravenscraig
Listing Name: Ravenscraig Park, Dovecot
Listing Date: 28 January 1971
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 381181
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB36405
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200381181
Location: Kirkcaldy
County: Fife
Town: Kirkcaldy
Electoral Ward: Kirkcaldy East
Traditional County: Fife
Tagged with: Dovecote
Late 16th century. 4-stage, flat-roofed rubble beehive dovecot. Stages divided by projecting ashlar rat course/alighting ledge; blocked door to N, and rubble boundary walls adjoining to E and W. Flat, stone slab roof with round flight-hole opening to centre.
INTERIOR: not seen.
Situated on the N shore of the Forth, the dovecot was once part of Ravenscraig Castle policies, property of the St Clair family. After the bankruptcy of the 5th Earl of Rosslyn in 1896, Sir Michael Nairn purchased Ravenscraig and Dysart House; in 1929 the land now forming Ravenscraig Park was gifted to the community.
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