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Latitude: 55.4234 / 55°25'24"N
Longitude: -4.6339 / 4°38'2"W
OS Eastings: 233403
OS Northings: 617541
OS Grid: NS334175
Mapcode National: GBR 49.0F9W
Mapcode Global: WH2PW.SYK7
Plus Code: 9C7QC9F8+9C
Entry Name: Doonside Dovecot, Doonside Estate, Alloway, Ayr
Listing Name: Doonside Estate, Doonside Dovecot
Listing Date: 4 September 2000
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 394706
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB47356
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Ayr, Alloway, Doonside Estate, Doonside Dovecot
ID on this website: 200394706
Location: Maybole
County: South Ayrshire
Electoral Ward: Ayr West
Parish: Maybole
Traditional County: Ayrshire
Tagged with: Dovecote
Later-late 19th century. Square-plan, 3 stage lectern dovecot. Cement harled brick, with red sandstone strip quoins, window dressings and 1st stage, concrete slab rat courses, coping and cills. Round-arched arcade with impost detail to 1st stage, rat course above; window openings to N and E of 2nd stage, 3 flight holes to base of that to E, rat course above; walls built up to all but S elevation of 3rd stage, crenellated parapet.
The imposing Doonside Dovecot is set in the walled garden on the Doonside Estate. It is of particularly unusual design, being raised on a red sandstone arcade, with the main dovecot above. The 1st Edition OS map would appear to show Doonside steading to the W of its current position, with a square structure (possibly the dovecot) in the centre of the courtyard; whereas the 2nd Edition map shows the steading has been rebuilt, in its current position, slightly to the E, suggesting that perhaps the dovecot predates the existing steading.
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