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

Balmalcolm Cottage, Balmalcolm

WRENN ID
salt-moulding-wind
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 317 082
Coordinates
56.26151, -3.104
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Circa 1840, Balmalcolm Cottage is a single-storey house with a 20th-century addition to the north. The house is harled with chamfered ashlar margins and a base course. The south elevation has three bays. The central bay is semi-octagonal, featuring a panelled door with a fanlight above and windows with a lying-pane glazing pattern. Deeply overhanging eaves are supported by rustic columns. The outer bays have bipartites with coped lintels. Chamfered angles curve to square below the eaves. The west elevation also has three bays, with a bowed central bay containing a tripartite window, and 8-pane sash windows in the outer bays. A modern glazed porch is present on the east elevation.

Other features include deeply projecting eaves, symmetrically placed corniced stacks, and a piended slate roof. To the north are two parallel single-storey service blocks, also harled, linked by a screen wall to form a courtyard. The east block has a segmental-headed cart opening, a door, and an altered garage opening to the courtyard, while the west block has a door and a window. The property is set within a circular garden. The statutory address is Balmalcolm Village White Croft (formerly Balmalcolm Cottage).

Local climate

Balmalcolm Cottage, 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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