Wester Balbeggie Farmhouse is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 March 1998. Farmhouse.

Wester Balbeggie Farmhouse

WRENN ID
distant-ledge-thunder
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Glenrothes and Mid Fife MP: Richard Baker (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
26 March 1998
Type
Farmhouse
OS grid reference
NT 272 963
Coordinates
56.1547, -3.17261
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Wester Balbeggie Farmhouse is a traditional farmhouse dating from the late 18th to early 19th century. It is a two-storey, three-bay building with a rectangular plan, featuring a later bowed wing. The exterior is constructed from roughly coursed rubble, with ashlar quoins and raised margins, and includes an eaves lintel course.

On the south elevation, there is a deep-set part-glazed panelled timber door at the centre, flanked by windows, with regular fenestration on the first floor. The east elevation has a gabled bay on the left with a window on each floor and a broad gablehead stack. There is a lower advanced bowed bay with three windows in the centre, and a lower wing with two windows on the outer right.

The west elevation features a gabled bay on the right with a window on each floor, and a lower wing to the left with a window and a door beyond. The windows are timber sash and case with plate glazing. The roof is covered with graded grey slates, and there are ashlar-coped skews and coped ashlar stacks, with the eastern stack having polygonal cans and the western stack being rendered. Thackstanes are also present.

Inside, the original house retains some plain cornicing, panelled shutters, and a stone staircase. The bowed wing features decorative plasterwork cornicing and a carved timber fireplace. The property is enclosed by coped rubble boundary walls that surround the garden to the south, east, and west.

Local climate

Wester Balbeggie Farmhouse 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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