Balneil is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 February 1972.
Balneil
- WRENN ID
- frozen-postern-sparrow
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 1 February 1972
- OS grid reference
- NO 474 055
- Coordinates
- 56.23918, -2.84936
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Balneil Farmhouse is an early 19th-century building. It is a plain two-storey, three-window structure with harled walls, decorative margins around the windows, and a slated, piended roof. The farmhouse has ashlar chimneys with a concave shoulder detail. A lean-to addition to the rear incorporates a pediment inscribed “RH AF 1742”.
Local climate
Balneil receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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