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Latitude: 55.8679 / 55°52'4"N
Longitude: -3.0934 / 3°5'36"W
OS Eastings: 331670
OS Northings: 664402
OS Grid: NT316644
Mapcode National: GBR 60VL.2C
Mapcode Global: WH6T1.GR5Y
Plus Code: 9C7RVW94+5J
Entry Name: Stables And Dovecot, Dalhousie Courte, Cockpen Road, Bonnyrigg
Listing Name: Bonnyrigg, Cockpen Road, Courtyard Country Inn, Dovecot and Stable Block
Listing Date: 9 October 1998
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 392799
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB45781
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Bonnyrigg, Cockpen Road, Dalhousie Courte, Stables And Dovecot
ID on this website: 200392799
Location: Cockpen
County: Midlothian
Electoral Ward: Bonnyrigg
Parish: Cockpen
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
John Dennis of Newcastle, 1880. Octagonal dovecot with adjoining 2-storey, rectangular-plan stable block. Red brick with brick dressings. Round-arched window and door openings.
NE ELEVATION: near-symmetrical; broad doorway with iron lintel, boarded timber door; blind window flanking to left; 3 blind oculi recesses between ground and 1st floors; large opening to centre of 1st floor; flanked by 2 blind windows; blind oculi set in gablehead.
NW ELEVATION: single bipartite window to centre of ground floor, dovecot to outer left (see below).
SW ELEVATION: not seen 1998.
SE ELEVATION: asymmetrical; 3-bay; recessed bays to centre and right; bipartite window to right of ground floor; single window to each bay of 1st floor; irregular tripartite window to lean-to bay to left at ground floor. Octagonal dovecot on square plinth to 1st floor of bay to left with panelled, infilled flightholes; corbelled parapet.
Windows predominantly boarded up. Grey slate roof with decorative terracotta ridge.
INTERIOR: not seen 1998.
John Dennis's brick dovecot and stable block lies to the SW of the Courtyard Country Inn, which he enlarged in 1880. The use of brick for the dovecot combined with its late date make it a particularly interesting and unusual structure.
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