Old Gate To Raith Walled Garden, Raith House is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 September 1979. Garden pavilion.

Old Gate To Raith Walled Garden, Raith House

WRENN ID
errant-floor-swift
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
10 September 1979
Type
Garden pavilion
OS grid reference
NT 271 913
Coordinates
56.10961, -3.17337
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Old Gate to Raith Walled Garden is an early 19th-century square-plan classical pavilion that once served the former Raith Walled Garden. It is constructed of droved ashlar and features a cornice with mutules and a stone slab roof.

On the southeast elevation, there is a splayed, round-headed arch that is deeply chamfered, with a moulded stone pediment above it. The entrance consists of a deep-set, two-leaf panelled timber door, flanked by boundary walls.

The boundary walls are made of rendered coped rubble and are part of the former walled garden, although they have been breached in places. To the east, there are large curved and battered buttresses, and to the north, there is a segmental-headed ashlar cart entrance.

Local climate

Old Gate To Raith Walled Garden, Raith House receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% 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 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% 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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