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Latitude: 57.6741 / 57°40'26"N
Longitude: -2.6913 / 2°41'28"W
OS Eastings: 358862
OS Northings: 865123
OS Grid: NJ588651
Mapcode National: GBR M8QF.MT5
Mapcode Global: WH7KN.MCMT
Plus Code: 9C9VM8F5+JF
Entry Name: Dovecot, Durn House, Portsoy
Listing Name: Durn House Dovecot
Listing Date: 22 February 1972
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 343068
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB10591
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Portsoy, Durn House, Dovecot
ID on this website: 200343068
Location: Fordyce
County: Aberdeenshire
Electoral Ward: Banff and District
Parish: Fordyce
Traditional County: Banffshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Probably 17th century. Tall rectangular rubble dovecot
now coated with modern harl covering boulder footings
and single heavy rat course. Longer elevations N and S.
Doorway with ashlar margins in centre of S front; smaller
shuttered pigeon entrance above; single round vent in
each gable. Crowsteps; slate roof.
INTERIOR: about 500 nesting boxes lined interior.
There was a house at Durn before the present mansion and this
dovecot is the only surviving building indicating an earlier
dwelling of some pretension. The slating is recent; probably
the cote would have had swept dormers with flight holes
for the birds besides flight holes pierced in the (now)
shuttered entrance.
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