How To Make A Dovecote Roof

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.

How to make a dovecote roof.

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. I was now aching to tackle this part of the project. 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.

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. Each section stacks on top of the other starting with the base section. The roof the nest box and the base. Because the slates would be more decorative than functional i commenced the roof covering with a layer of felt all over photo 10 above.

They generally contain pigeonholes for the birds to nest. Here s how i made my version of the dovecote birdhouse. Doocot is a structure intended to house pigeons or doves. To hold the nest box in place i attached a simple pair of brackets made from pieces of scrap.

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 lead roof buckingham dovecote can accommodate up to six pairs of nesting doves and comes painted in farrow ball s old white. The stepped roof consists of progressively smaller layers stacked on top of each other to create a sloped roofline.

Fill the screw holes then sand and paint dovecote roof and post with resene quick dry primer and lumbersider. Cut a 35deg angle to the top edge of both roof panels.