2 Balfarg Farm Cottages, Balfarg is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 March 1996.

2 Balfarg Farm Cottages, Balfarg

WRENN ID
nether-sill-gilt
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Glenrothes and Mid Fife MP: Richard Baker (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
1 March 1996
OS grid reference
NO 285 033
Coordinates
56.21701, -3.15425
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Also on this page: flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

3 Balfarg Farm Cottages is a late 19th-century single-storey terrace of cottages arranged in an L shape, with alterations made in the 20th century. The building features droved ashlar with coursed rubble and harl on the sides and rear, along with a moulded eaves course. The doorcases are pedimented and corniced, with chamfered arrises and stone mullions.

The south elevation is symmetrical with nine bays. At the center, there is a corniced, blinded doorcase with a pediment that breaks the eaves. Flanking the doorcase are windows with bipartite designs and canopied doors, which are part-glazed boarded timber with two-leaf fanlights. The right door has a small, modern porch that disrupts the symmetry, and there is a further window in the outer bays.

On the west elevation, there is a window to the outer left of the gable, along with two windows in the recessed face of a lower T projection. The north elevation features a door in the bay to the right of center, flanked by projecting, low, pitch-roofed outhouses. There is a window to the left of the door and another outhouse in the outer left re-entrant angle.

The east elevation has eight bays, with a corniced window (which may have been a converted door) at the center, and two windows to the right. There is a corniced and pedimented doorcase in the penultimate bay to the right, with another window to the outer right. To the left of center, there is a bipartite window, and a broad gable beyond with a window to the right and a blinded opening at the center, featuring an arrowslit at the gablehead.

The north elevation includes a window to the outer right of the gable, along with two windows in the recessed face of the lower T projection. The west elevation has an outhouse to the left, a modern flat-roofed extension to the right, and a window beyond.

The cottages have timber sash and case windows with 4, 8, and 9 pane glazing patterns. The roof is covered with graded grey slates, and there are ashlar coped skews and coped ashlar stacks with some cans. The boundary wall is made of coped rubble.

Local climate

2 Balfarg Farm Cottages, Balfarg 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 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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.

More on this building

Sign in or create a free account to unlock:

  • No EPC on record for this property
  • No sale records on file
  • No related consent applications matched
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Create free account

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.

Nearby listed buildings

  1. 3 Balfarg Farm Cottages, Balfarg Grade C 12 m
  2. 1 Balfarg Farm Cottages, Balfarg Grade C 13 m
  3. Balfarg Grade C 106 m
  4. 6 Gateside Grade C 441 m
  5. Coul Mains Grade B 491 m
  6. Bridge, Balbirnie Burn, Balbirnie Park, Balfarg Grade C 633 m
  7. Dairy, Balbirnie Mains, Balbirnie Park Grade C 703 m
  8. Balbirnie House, Balbirnie Park Grade A 971 m
  9. Ne Range, Stables, Balbirnie House, Balbirnie Park Grade B 1.1 km
  10. Nw Range, Stables, Balbirnie House, Balbirnie Park Grade B 1.1 km