Kilconquhar House is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 February 1972. 1 related planning application.
Kilconquhar House
- WRENN ID
- pitched-timber-auburn
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 1 February 1972
- Address
- Kilconquhar House, KY9 1EZ
- OS grid reference
- NO 493 027
- Coordinates
- 56.2142, -2.81894
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Kilconquhar House is a late 16th-century tower house, originally of an L-plan with five storeys and a stair tower. The stair tower was rebuilt in the 18th century, taking a larger scale and platt form, though seemingly built on the footprint of the original tower. Circular angle turrets are a distinctive feature.
The south-east front was redesigned in 1831 by William Burn, with a two-storey basement and attic incorporating bay windows and crowstepped gables. A further revision of an unexecuted 1831 scheme, undertaken in 1839 by William Burn and David Bryce, altered the north-west (entrance) front, which now also features two storeys and a basement. A curved pediment frames the doorpiece, with a cartouche. A canted bay is corbelled to a square shape at the second floor on the south-west front.
The house is built of rubble and has a slated roof. A north-east addition has been built, and internal alterations were carried out in the 1920s.
Local climate
Kilconquhar House receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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