Beam Engine House, Thornton is a Grade A listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 March 1996. Engine house. 2 related planning applications.

Beam Engine House, Thornton

WRENN ID
iron-pilaster-indigo
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Glenrothes and Mid Fife MP: Richard Baker (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
1 March 1996
Type
Engine house
Address
Beam Engine House, Thornton, KY1 4BX
OS grid reference
NT 291 972
Coordinates
56.1628, -3.14169
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Beam Engine House in Thornton is a classical engine house dating from the late 18th to early 19th century. It stands three storeys high and consists of a single bay. The building is in poor condition and is constructed from ashlar and squared rubble, featuring droved quoins. It has a base course and round-headed openings with voussoirs.

On the west elevation, there is a broad, raked buttress next to a blocked round-headed opening, with a square opening located near the top. The north elevation has a door to the right at ground level. The east elevation features a door at the centre below a round-headed opening, along with another blocked round-headed opening at the second floor. The south elevation includes a window to the right and shows evidence of an adjoining pitch-roofed building.

Local climate

Beam Engine House, Thornton receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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