How To Make A Dovecote Roof

A lead roof buckingham dovecote can accommodate up to six pairs of nesting doves and comes painted in farrow ball s old white.

How to make a dovecote roof.

Fill the screw holes then sand and paint dovecote roof and post with resene quick dry primer and lumbersider. The roof the nest box and the base. Each section stacks on top of the other starting with the base section. To hold the nest box in place i attached a simple pair of brackets made from pieces of scrap.

The stepped roof consists of progressively smaller layers stacked on top of each other to create a sloped roofline. The dovecote is made in three sections. Topping it off is a decorative finial giving the birdhouse a similar appearance to the much more elaborate dovecote. At the start i had decided to make a feature of the roof and experiment with cutting my own felt slates.

Pigeons and doves were an important food source historically in the middle east and europe and were kept for. 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. I was now aching to tackle this part of the project. They generally contain pigeonholes for the birds to nest.

Cut a 35deg angle to the top edge of both roof panels. Dovecotes may be free standing structures in a variety of shapes or built into the end of a house or barn. This dovecote is in a commune colombier at manoir d ango in france. A dovecote or dovecot ˈ d ʌ v k ɒ t or doocot scots.

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. 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.