Sandyhills Doocot, Doo'cot Park, Banff

Hexagonal dovecote on hilltop site. Harl pointed rubble with crenellated tooled ashlar wallhead. Tall round-headed blind arcade at north with square-headed doorway. Pulvinated cornice immediately below wallhead; single ashlar weeper drainage spouts project from centre of cornice, surviving on most elevations, draining flat stone slab roof masked by crenellation. 2 rectangular openings house flight holes, formerly fronted by alighting ledges supported on iron brackets (brackets survive).

The Sandyhills dovecote stands on a hilltop above the Deveron valley and Duff House, as a folly and ornament to the landscape. The central column, providing 96 additional nesting boxes, is unusual; structually it supports the stone slab roof. Until the 1980s the dovecote stood in a field, now (1994) largely built over with modern residential development. (Historic Scotland)

February 2008: External inspection finds the doocot in poor condition, particularly the masonry at wallhead level. The is evidence of past repairs using cement to a possible structural crack.

November 2010: External inspection finds no significant change from the previous site visit.

23 October 2013: External inspection finds the building remains in much the same condition as seen previously.