Lambswell, Raith Estate is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 March 1998. Folly.
Lambswell, Raith Estate
- WRENN ID
- high-corbel-saffron
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1998
- Type
- Folly
- OS grid reference
- NT 235 921
- Coordinates
- 56.11573, -3.23173
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Lambswell, located on the Raith Estate, is a folly dating from the early to earlier 19th century. It is a two-stage structure built of rubble, positioned next to the gable end of a derelict farmhouse. The folly features an ashlar dividing course and projecting rubble margins, with pointed-arch openings.
On the east elevation, the first stage has a large pointed-arch niche at ground level, while the second stage includes a pointed-arch window beneath a quatrefoil opening. To the left, there are three small square nesting boxes and 'open' crowsteps leading to the left pitch.
The adjoining farmhouse has small windows at each floor located in the center of the north elevation.
Local climate
Lambswell, Raith Estate 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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