Castle Shotts, Balmblae, Falkland is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 February 1972. 1 related planning application.

Castle Shotts, Balmblae, Falkland

WRENN ID
graven-gable-vermeil
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
1 February 1972
Address
Castle Shotts, Balmblae, Falkland, KY15 7BS
OS grid reference
NO 251 074
Coordinates
56.25376, -3.20908
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Castle Shotts is an 18th-century, two-storey, five-window building. It is constructed with whitewashed harl walls and painted margins, and has a pantiled roof. The doorpiece has been modernised. The statutory address includes the building and its garden walls, located at Balmblae, Falkland.

Local climate

Castle Shotts, Balmblae, 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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