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Latitude: 57.4767 / 57°28'36"N
Longitude: -4.3994 / 4°23'57"W
OS Eastings: 256223
OS Northings: 845482
OS Grid: NH562454
Mapcode National: GBR H8HY.ZGX
Mapcode Global: WH3F8.DB9M
Plus Code: 9C9QFJG2+M6
Entry Name: Dovecot, Newton House
Listing Name: Newton House Dovecote
Listing Date: 5 October 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 339802
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB7819
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Newton House, Dovecot
ID on this website: 200339802
Location: Kirkhill
County: Highland
Electoral Ward: Aird and Loch Ness
Parish: Kirkhill
Traditional County: Inverness-shire
Tagged with: Dovecote
Dated 1783. Cylindrical dovecote; harled rubble with tooled
ashlar margins; rubble basecourse with half round step
to entrance, dated lintel; string course between doorway and
wallhead; conical slated roof with apex cast-iron weather-
vane and small south facing dormer with 2 rows flight holes.
Interior; walls lined with 227 tooled rubble nesting boxes.
Central potence pole survives, with iron pin at base and apex
with corresponding slot for apex pin in cross beam; base
plinth possibly buried below accumulated floor rubble.
Newton House now ruinous. Sited on slope above driveway.
Ladder formerly hung from central arm of potence which
revolved to facilitate collection of young pigeons for
culinary use.
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