Burntisland Harbour is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 March 1995. Harbour.
Burntisland Harbour
- WRENN ID
- high-foundation-hemlock
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 31 March 1995
- Type
- Harbour
- OS grid reference
- NT 230 854
- Coordinates
- 56.05536, -3.23764
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Burntisland Harbour is a re-modelled harbour originally established in the 1540s, with significant work carried out by Meik & Bouch between 1876 and 1902. The harbour features two wet docks and a tidal basin entrance that is 38 feet wide and between 16 to 22 feet deep.
The tidal harbours consist of a rectangular Outer Harbour that widens to the east and narrows into an adjoining round-ended Inner Harbour to the north. The wet docks are also rectangular, with the East Dock narrowing to the east and equipped with jetties to the south and capstans flanking its mouth. The West Dock is similarly rectangular, with its entrance located to the south.
A coped coursed rubble breakwater is situated to the southwest. There is a coped ashlar passenger slipway featuring stone sets and a pulvinated band course, along with a wooden-jib post crane on a projecting arm located between the Inner and Outer Harbours. Additionally, there is a west breakwater light, which is a fixed small cast-iron pier with a lantern housed in a caphouse behind a cast-iron balcony.
Local climate
Burntisland Harbour 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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