What is recorded here

Auchanachie Castle Doocot stands in Aberdeenshire as a dovecot, its exact purpose reduced to a single function: housing birds for another estate. The structure may have served a household long gone, its walls once crowded with wings and droppings rather than people. What remains is a hollow instrument of domestic pride, stripped of the hands that built it and the birds that filled it.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Auchanachie Castle Doocot as Dovecot (period Unassigned). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Auchanachie Castle Doocot is a 16th-century structure associated with the Auchanachie estate in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. It is remembered as an example of a traditional Scottish doocot, used for housing pigeons whose meat and eggs provided sustenance for the local laird or estate.

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