Piteadie Castle is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 June 1979.
Piteadie Castle
- WRENN ID
- sharp-bronze-russet
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 18 June 1979
- OS grid reference
- NT 257 891
- Coordinates
- 56.08915, -3.19502
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Piteadie Castle includes an extensive 15th-century walled garden with a round-arched Renaissance gateway. The gateway features a pediment inscribed with the Calderwood arms and the date 1686. A second gate is located within the west wall, bearing an inscribed lintel. The castle itself has a history dating back to 1564, when it belonged to William Kirkcaldy of Grange. Ownership subsequently passed to David ‘Boiswell’ of Glassmount and then the Boswells of Balmuto. In 1671, the property was sold to William Calderwood, an Edinburgh burgess and apothecary, whose initials appear above the gate to the walled garden. Later accounts describe the castle as being in a "very entire" state of ruin, with recent habitation, and state that it belonged to the Earl of Rosslyn and had been in the St Clair family for a long time. The listing excludes the Scheduled Monument SM871.
Local climate
Piteadie Castle receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% 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 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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