How To Make A Dovecote Roof

To hold the nest box in place i attached a simple pair of brackets made from pieces of scrap.

How to make a dovecote roof.

For a classic dovecote consider a uk made birdhouse from makers such as mark s dovecotes specializing in freestanding designs or dovetails which offers a painted wall mounted model with five nesting holes for 275. They generally contain pigeonholes for the birds to nest. Doocot is a structure intended to house pigeons or doves. I was now aching to tackle this part of the project.

At the start i had decided to make a feature of the roof and experiment with cutting my own felt slates. If you didn t want the roof to gray i would think you could treat it with a stain or whatever is recommended for a cedar. Here s how i made my version of the dovecote birdhouse. Topping it off is a decorative finial giving the birdhouse a similar appearance to the much more elaborate dovecote.

Fill the screw holes then sand and paint dovecote roof and post with resene quick dry primer and lumbersider. My dovecote is around 4 years old and it still looks the same today as the day i installed it in the garden except for the graying of the cedar roof. The dovecote is made in three sections. This dovecote is in a commune colombier at manoir d ango in france.

Pigeons and doves were an important food source historically in the middle east and europe and were kept for. Cut a 35deg angle to the top edge of both roof panels. A lead roof buckingham dovecote can accommodate up to six pairs of nesting doves and comes painted in farrow ball s old white. Because the slates would be more decorative than functional i commenced the roof covering with a layer of felt all over photo 10 above.

The roof the nest box and the base. A dovecote or dovecot ˈ d ʌ v k ɒ t or doocot scots.