Craigflower House, Low Causeway, Torryburn is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 March 1981. School. 2 related planning applications.
Craigflower House, Low Causeway, Torryburn
- WRENN ID
- roaming-frieze-wagtail
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Dunfermline and Dollar MP: Graeme Downie (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1981
- Type
- School
- OS grid reference
- NT 024 860
- Coordinates
- 56.05705, -3.56869
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Craigflower House, located on Low Causeway in Torryburn, features substantial remodelling by David Bryce dated 1862, transforming an earlier house into a Scottish Baronial style. This three-storey structure includes angle turrets that are corbelled from either the first or second floor, except for the southeast turret, which extends to full height, all topped with conical roofs. The building is constructed of rubble with ashlar dressings and presents asymmetrical facades.
The entrance front showcases a central projecting pilastered porch adorned with obelisk finials and other Jacobean details, characteristic of the Portmore type. To the right, there is a wide bay that is canted at the ground level, features a tall first floor, and is corbelled to a square at the second floor, along with three pedimented dormers. The southeast angle turret boasts a tall mullioned window on the first floor.
The long garden elevation is also asymmetrical, with three and four storeys, and includes a central square turret that is corbelled over the first floor. The house is finished with crowstepped gables and slated roofs.
Local climate
Craigflower House, Low Causeway, Torryburn sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% 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 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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- Related listed building consents — 2 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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