Ruined Building In Grounds, Balgownie House, Culross is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 December 1979. Garden building.

Ruined Building In Grounds, Balgownie House, Culross

WRENN ID
peeling-dormer-hazel
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Dunfermline and Dollar MP: Graeme Downie (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
19 December 1979
Type
Garden building
OS grid reference
NS 984 859
Coordinates
56.05542, -3.63273
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This is a possibly 17th-century ruined building located in the grounds of Balgownie House in Culross. The structure is rectangular in plan and roofless, with some sections rising to two stories. It is constructed from sandstone rubble. To the southwest, there is an advanced section featuring a central window. On the right side, there is a circular stair tower that is also advanced, along with a door that has roll and hollow moulding in its right return. A window on the right side is blocked. The eastern inner wall shows remnants of a flue, with a niche located to the right. The eastern section of the building is situated on higher ground.

Local climate

Ruined Building In Grounds, Balgownie House, Culross sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% 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 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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