Banchory Farmhouse is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 March 2000. Farmhouse.

Banchory Farmhouse

WRENN ID
fallow-steel-claret
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
9 March 2000
Type
Farmhouse
OS grid reference
NT 261 882
Coordinates
56.0816, -3.18825
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Banchory Farmhouse is a traditional farmhouse built in 1793, featuring a two-storey, four-bay rectangular plan with single-storey ancillary buildings on either side. The main structure is constructed of painted rubble with raised stone margins, while the ancillaries are made of roughly coursed rubble with squared rubble quoins.

On the southeast garden elevation, there is a part-glazed timber door located in the bay to the left of center at ground level, with small windows in the flanking bays and a window to the outer right. The first floor has three evenly spaced windows, and each ancillary has a window.

The northwest entrance elevation has a deep-set door in the bay to the right of center and a small window to the outer left. The first floor features a stair window to the right of center, another window near the center, and a small rooflight close to the ridge. There are four tiny openings in the ancillary at the outer right.

The windows are timber sash and case with 4- and 12-pane glazing patterns, except for the small-pane, top-opening timber windows found in the southeast center and northwest left at ground level. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are coped gable and ridge stacks with thackstanes and cans, as well as ashlar-coped skews. Decorative cast-iron downpipes with rainwater hoppers are also present.

Inside, the farmhouse features plain cornices. The property is enclosed by semicircular-coped rubble boundary walls.

Local climate

Banchory Farmhouse 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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