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Dovecot, dated to 1638, but which may have its origins in the 16th Century. Originally a 'beehive' type dovecot, later converted with the addition of a pitched roof. It is constructed of pinned split boulder rubble. Originally it may have had a stone or slate roof, but the roof structure was entirely reconstructed in the late 20th century using A-frame trusses and slates. Two pronounced rat-courses encircle its squat body and the two east-facing skewputts bear weathered carvings of faces. It is corbelled to square with crow-stepped gables. It retains almost 300 nesting boxes, recessed in the wall with ledges, now much broken. The crow-steps are in white granite. The structure was recorded through laser scanning in 2009 by a team from the Scott Sutherland School (headed up by N. Brown, R. Laing and J. Scott).
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Historic Environment Records (HER)