Greigston House is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 June 1979.
Greigston House
- WRENN ID
- lone-string-sepia
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 June 1979
- OS grid reference
- NO 447 110
- Coordinates
- 56.28905, -2.89445
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Greigston House is mainly an early to mid-18th century small mansion built with rubble and featuring chamfered openings. The building has a U-shaped plan, open to the south. The main central block is two storeys high, with a five-window front. The first-floor windows are taller than those on the ground floor. A crowstepped wallhead attic gable sits above the centre, featuring a panel and a margined and corniced stack. A mid-Victorian crenellated porch has been added to the front. The roof is slated with crowstep gables and similar end stacks.
A two-window gabled section projects from the back, with the original skew now removed. Single-storey lean-to extensions at the rear contain roundel features; the extension on the right connects to a gable with a ball finial and additional roundels, including one at the apex.
Two wings project forward from the main body of the house. The wing on the right (east) may date to the 17th century and has a steeper roof. It originally featured one window overlooking the forecourt and another at the gable, though the latter has been enlarged. The wing on the left (west) is lower and retains its original, lower-pitched roof and three windows facing the courtyard.
Both wings have straight, skewed front gables, topped with square finials that have moulded details. Male and female busts are positioned at the ends of these gables, looking onto the forecourt. The windows are almost entirely reglazed with two-pane sashes.
Local climate
Greigston House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% 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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