Orchard House, Balmalcolm is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 March 1984.

Orchard House, Balmalcolm

WRENN ID
peeling-attic-yarrow
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
1 March 1984
OS grid reference
NO 319 083
Coordinates
56.26254, -3.10075
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Orchard House is a late 18th century two-storey house, located in Balmalcolm village. It was extended to the northeast by one additional two-storey bay, likely in the early 19th century. The original house has an irregular four-bay frontage, with a central door set within a gabled timber porch. The fenestration is also irregular, with three enlarged twelve-pane sash windows on the first floor. The original section has straight roof skews, corniced end stacks, and a slate roof. A single-storey rubble-built wing extends from the southwest gable towards the northwest, forming an L-plan. This wing is harled on its northeast elevation and features door and window openings, originally covered by a pantile roof, which has since been replaced with modern tiles over the two northwest bays.

Local climate

Orchard House, Balmalcolm receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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