Town Hall, High Street, Falkland is a Grade A listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 December 1971. Town hall.

Town Hall, High Street, Falkland

WRENN ID
outer-banister-equinox
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
1 December 1971
Type
Town hall
OS grid reference
NO 252 073
Coordinates
56.25313, -3.20746
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Town Hall in Falkland, designed by Thomas Barclay between 1800 and 1801, is a classical two-storey building. It features arched openings on the ground floor and has a three-window front on both the north and east sides. The structure includes a clock tower topped with an octagonal belfry drum and a spire. The building is constructed of ashlar stone with raised quoins, while the ground floor is painted and the roof is slated. Inside, the first-floor room boasts a fine contemporary ceiling, and it incorporates coats of arms from a previous building, dated 1618 and 1715.

Local climate

Town Hall, High Street, Falkland receives an average of 900 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 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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