Feather House, Montquhanie Estate is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 October 1973.
Feather House, Montquhanie Estate
- WRENN ID
- graven-wicket-ebony
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 October 1973
- OS grid reference
- NO 347 212
- Coordinates
- 56.37887, -3.05818
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Feather House, part of the Montquhanie Estate, is a 16th-century tower house. Originally measuring 42 feet by 26 feet, it was built using whin rubble with ashlar dressings. Surviving corner turrets are corbelled. The centre of the north wall is missing and the south wall has been altered during later repairs.
A small lean-to addition and a mid-Victorian addition with crowstepped gables, dated IC ML 1682, extend from the east courtyard wall and connect to a small two-story range to the west, which was restored in 1964.
A three-window conical-roofed tower is positioned on the southwest angle. The south gable is crowstepped while the north gable is straight. A stone built into the west wall is dated BAC 1680.
The site is a scheduled monument; permission was once granted for demolition, but this was not enacted.
Local climate
Feather House, Montquhanie Estate 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 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% 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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