Milestone, Pickletillem is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 October 1973.
Milestone, Pickletillem
- WRENN ID
- proud-parapet-candle
- 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 436 246
- Coordinates
- 56.41066, -2.91435
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This milestone, dated 1824, was constructed by Alex Russell, an ironfounder from Kirkcaldy. It is part of the Pettycur and Newport Passage road series. The milestone features a bow-fronted plate with a curvilinear top edge. It is painted white with black italic letters in relief, displaying the distances to Pettycur (30), New Inn (17), Cupar (8), and Newport (3) miles. The statutory address is Milestone at Pickletillem.
Local climate
Milestone, Pickletillem receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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