Walled Garden, Hillside House, Aberdour is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 March 2004. Walled garden.

Walled Garden, Hillside House, Aberdour

WRENN ID
seventh-keep-stoat
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
24 March 2004
Type
Walled garden
OS grid reference
NT 190 858
Coordinates
56.05862, -3.30166
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The walled garden at Hillside House, dating from the early to mid-19th century, features a large rectangular plan and is built into the rising slope to the north of the house. The outer walls are constructed of random rubble with droved quoins, while the inner walls to the north, east, and west are made of brick in a running bond. The south elevation has a low wall with rounded coping stones, and the higher walls to the north, east, and west have missing wall heads, sweeping towards the northwest and northeast corners.

On the north elevation, there are two evenly placed segmentally arched doors, which have ashlar surrounds with voussoirs, droved rybats, and raised margins. At the far right of the west elevation, there are remains of a rectangular ashlar entrance pier. A modern wide entrance has been inserted into the right corner of the south elevation. Additionally, there is a low squat door at the left corner of the east elevation, featuring ashlar margins on the outer wall and a thick rectangular margin to the right.

Local climate

Walled Garden, Hillside House, Aberdour 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 lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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