West Lodge, Balbirnie House, Balbirnie Park is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 September 1979. Lodge.

West Lodge, Balbirnie House, Balbirnie Park

WRENN ID
guardian-railing-frost
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Glenrothes and Mid Fife MP: Richard Baker (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
10 September 1979
Type
Lodge
OS grid reference
NO 280 021
Coordinates
56.20626, -3.16086
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

West Lodge at Balbirnie House, built in 1823 by R & R Dickson and extended in the 20th century, is a single-storey classical lodge house originally designed in an L shape. The building features dressed ashlar stone with polished ashlar and a harled extension. It has a base course, eaves cornice, and blocking course, along with architraved windows and stone mullions.

On the north elevation, there is a prominent flat-roofed open stone porch located in the re-entrant angle to the right. This porch includes a Doric column to the northwest and pilasters to the northeast and southwest, with a modern timber door set back. To the left, there is a canted window with a flat roof in a gabled bay.

The west elevation features a gabled bay to the right with a canted window, while to the left, there is a narrow window on the recessed face of the porch and a blank face of a modern flat-roofed extension on the outer right.

The east elevation has deeply moulded square windows on three scroll brackets, positioned to the right and left of the center in slightly advanced bays. A modern extension is attached at the outer left.

The south elevation consists of a modern extension with a timber door at the center and windows in the flanking bays.

The lodge has plate glass glazing in timber sash and case windows on the north and west sides, while timber casement windows are used elsewhere. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there is a shouldered and coped ashlar stack.

The property is enclosed by coped rubble boundary walls.

Local climate

West Lodge, Balbirnie House, Balbirnie Park receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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