Balgonie Arms, Main Street, Coaltown Of Balgonie is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 March 1996. Public house. 1 related planning application.

Balgonie Arms, Main Street, Coaltown Of Balgonie

WRENN ID
late-brass-barley
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Glenrothes and Mid Fife MP: Richard Baker (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
1 March 1996
Type
Public house
Address
Balgonie Arms, Main Street, Coaltown Of Balgonie, KY7 6HU
OS grid reference
NT 301 997
Coordinates
56.18486, -3.1264
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Balgonie Arms is a public house located on Main Street in Coaltown of Balgonie, dating from the earlier to mid 19th century, with later alterations. It is a two-storey building with single-storey wings on either side, constructed in a terrace. The exterior features lined cement render and harl with painted margins, as well as base and eaves courses.

The south elevation, which serves as the entrance, has a two-storey central section flanked by single-storey wings, which may have been converted from cottages. To the left of the centre, there is a panelled timber door with a letterbox fanlight and a name board. To the right, there are two windows, and to the left, there is another window. The first floor has three irregularly spaced windows, with the Prince of Wales feathers displayed between the first and second windows. The single-storey wing to the right features a three-bay design with a two-leaf boarded timber door and a plate glass fanlight at the centre, along with windows in the flanking bays. The wing to the left has a panelled timber door with a letterbox fanlight to the right and a window to the left.

The ground floor windows are timber sash and case with a four-pane glazing pattern, while the first floor has modern top-opening windows. The roof is covered with red pantiles and grey slate, and there are coped, harled stacks with clay cans and thackstanes.

Inside, the bar located in the right single-storey wing has boarded timber walls, a timber ceiling, and a timber bar, which also features a brass handrail.

The property is enclosed by a semicircular coped rubble boundary wall.

Local climate

Balgonie Arms, Main Street, Coaltown Of Balgonie 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 62% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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