Farmhouse And Steading, East Balbairdie is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 June 1973.
Farmhouse And Steading, East Balbairdie
- WRENN ID
- plain-bracket-hyssop
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 18 June 1973
- OS grid reference
- NT 237 894
- Coordinates
- 56.09144, -3.22756
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is an 18th-century farmhouse and steading, altered in the late 20th century, situated at Easter Balbairdie. The buildings form a U-shaped courtyard, with the farmhouse being a 2-storey, 3-bay rectangular structure and the steading largely converted to dwellings as a single-storey range. The farmhouse is harled with painted margins, while the steading wings are of rubble construction with ashlar margins. The farmhouse exhibits a crowstepped gable, a feature characteristic of Fife vernacular architecture. A segmental-headed cart arch with voussoirs is present. Timber sash and case windows feature a 12- and 16-pane glazing pattern. Modern pantiles cover the roof, and there are harled stacks with thackstanes and cans.
The south-east (courtyard) elevation of the farmhouse is symmetrical, with a central door and a single window above, derived from a former doorway. Bipartite windows are located in the flanking bays at both ground and first floors, and a further window is in a single-storey bay to the left. The steading’s right wing has a bipartite window and a door to the outer right. The left wing of the courtyard includes a modern patio door, a window, and two further windows, with a small boarded timber door set high up on the outer left-hand side. The right wing of the steading has a cart arch on the outer right and a door to the left.
The north-west (rear) elevation of the farmhouse has a small window centrally, with flanking windows and another small window centrally on the first floor. Lower flanking bays have two windows to the outer right and eight very small windows to the left. The north-east elevation is a long, low range featuring a row of small windows. The south-west elevation exhibits a variety of altered openings, including a new porch to the outer left.
This represents a good early example of a traditional U-plan steading with an integral 2-storey farmhouse, reflecting Fife vernacular practices. The building’s category was changed from B to C(S) in August 2006.
Local climate
Farmhouse And Steading, East Balbairdie receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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