dovecote

noun

Etymology: From dove + cote.

1. A small house or box, often raised to a considerable height above the ground, and having compartments (pigeonholes), in which domestic pigeons breed; a dove house.

   “If you haue writ your Annales true, 'tis there, / That like an Eagle in a Doue-cote, I / Flutter'd your Volcians in Corioles.”

   “she could see the malt-house with its dovecote”

2. In medieval Europe, a round or square structure of stone or wood, free-standing or built into a tower, in which pigeons were kept.