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Latitude: 55.9276 / 55°55'39"N
Longitude: -2.646 / 2°38'45"W
OS Eastings: 359732
OS Northings: 670687
OS Grid: NT597706
Mapcode National: GBR 2X.ZKH7
Mapcode Global: WH8WB.B87P
Plus Code: 9C7VW9H3+2J
Entry Name: Dovecot, Nunraw House
Listing Name: Nunraw Dovecot
Listing Date: 5 February 1971
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 339172
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB7320
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Nunraw House, Dovecot
ID on this website: 200339172
Location: Garvald and Bara
County: East Lothian
Electoral Ward: Haddington and Lammermuir
Parish: Garvald And Bara
Traditional County: East Lothian
Tagged with: Dovecote
16th century. 4-stage, beehive dovecot, tapering to a late
19th century, hexagonal birdcage cupola. Rubble with dividing
rat courses; dressed red sandstone cupola on rubble base.
Dovecot reaches 22' with walls 3' 8" thick. Low door with
chamfered arrises to surround, and window on ground stage
currently blocked. 24 flight holes above 2nd stage rat
course. Former lean-to roof to cupola bearing stone thistle,
now disappeared.
INTERIOR: steps down to lower floor level; 450 nesting boxes,
10" deep, formerly reached by potence.
Sited circa 150' from Old Abbey. The number of flight holes
is unusually large for the number of boxes, especially in
conjunction with the birdcage openings.
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