Boundary Walls And Gate Piers, Balgownie House, Culross is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 July 1973. Garden wall.
Boundary Walls And Gate Piers, Balgownie House, Culross
- WRENN ID
- lunar-joist-gilt
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Dunfermline and Dollar MP: Graeme Downie (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1973
- Type
- Garden wall
- OS grid reference
- NS 984 859
- Coordinates
- 56.05519, -3.63258
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The boundary walls and gate piers of Balgownie House, built from tall rubble sandstone, enclose the garden to the south and east, sweeping at the northeast corner. In some areas, the wall retains its harling, topped with ashlar coping stones. The entrance gate piers to the east are square in plan, corniced, and feature truncated pyramidal coping stones. There are remains of a light fitting on the south gatepost, with metal gates and a timber pedestrian door to the south. The wall continues along the south side, bordering the roadside. To the west, there is a pair of chamfered, square-plan gate piers with pyramidal coping stones and replacement timber gates. The wall extends northwards along Slate Loan, and there is a cobbled area by the west gates.
Local climate
Boundary Walls And Gate Piers, Balgownie House, Culross sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% 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 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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