Daldowie Doocot

Located on Hamilton Road in the Mount Vernon district of Glasgow, the A-listed Daldowie Doocot lies in parkland to the north of the M 74 motorway, a quarter-mile (0.4 km) south of Baillieston. Built c.1745 on the Daldowie Estate, this cylindrical sandstone doocot (or dovecot) has a distinctive curved roof and unusual internal ladder mechanism to allow the pigeons to be collected for their meat.

Daldowie Doocot was originally located a half-mile (1 km) to the south next to the Daldowie Sewage Works and overlooking the River Clyde, but had deteriorated to a ruinous state. In 2000, a project coordinated by the Land Trust and executed by the owners of the adjacent land-fill site, moved the doocot to a more accessible location and undertook a complete restoration. The Land Trust is a consortium of the University of Strathclyde, the University of Glasgow and the Scottish Greenbelt Foundation, which attracts funding through the land-fill tax to undertake environmental work.

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