Balass Farmhouse And Steading is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 March 1984. Farm house and steading. 3 related planning applications.
Balass Farmhouse And Steading
- WRENN ID
- pale-stair-plover
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1984
- Type
- Farm house and steading
- Address
- Balass Farmhouse And Steading, KY15 5SX
- OS grid reference
- NO 392 143
- Coordinates
- 56.3175, -2.98436
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Balass Farmhouse and Steading is an earlier 19th-century building featuring a two-storey, three-bay farmhouse. It is constructed of droved ashlar with polished dressings and rusticated quoins. The central entrance has a panelled door with cavetto reveals and a fanlight, framed by a columned doorpiece. The windows are 12-pane sashes, and there is a cill course at the first floor level. The farmhouse has a narrow eaves band and shouldered, corniced end stacks on shaped bases. The roof is piended and has a platform slate covering.
To the north, there is a single-storey, three-bay wing that forms a T-plan with the main farmhouse. The courtyard steading is also single-storey and includes lofts to the north. Most of the steading is built from rubble, while the taller central and outer bays of the symmetrical west elevation are made of droved ashlar. The central bay features a round-arched pend below a square loft opening and a segmental pediment. The left bay has a large rectangular opening that has been altered, and the roofs of the steading are made of slate and asbestos.
Local climate
Balass Farmhouse And Steading receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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