Charlestown Harbour is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 March 1978. Harbour. 1 related planning application.
Charlestown Harbour
- WRENN ID
- lost-quartz-myrtle
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Dunfermline and Dollar MP: Graeme Downie (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 March 1978
- Type
- Harbour
- OS grid reference
- NT 066 834
- Coordinates
- 56.03496, -3.50045
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Charlestown Harbour is a mid 18th century structure that was extended in the earlier to mid 19th century and further extended to the east in the later 19th century. The harbour features a sickle-shaped inner pier to the east, which dates from the mid 18th century and has a rounded end. To the west, there is a truncated, squared-off section that was added in the earlier to mid 19th century, creating an inner harbour. Two long, round-ended linear piers from the earlier to mid 19th century enclose the outer harbour. The eastern pier, built up in the later 19th century, creates an additional outer harbour to the east of the ballast bank. The construction includes large sandstone blocks.
Local climate
Charlestown Harbour receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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