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

Summer House, Gilston House

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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
1 March 1984
Type
Summer house
OS grid reference
NO 447 067
Coordinates
56.2502, -2.89295
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Summer House at Gilston House, built around 1900, is an octagonal rustic structure featuring two concentric rows of timber posts. The inner row is fitted with horizontal boarding and includes some windows. The roof is made of pointed and faceted felt tiles arranged in a fish-scale pattern, sweeping over an open verandah and gabled over the entrance on the south side.

Local climate

Summer House, Gilston House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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