Mountquhanie House is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 October 1973.
Mountquhanie House
- WRENN ID
- steep-kitchen-russet
- 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 348 211
- Coordinates
- 56.37791, -3.05694
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Mountquhanie House is a large country house, built around 1820 for David Gillespie by James Gillespie (Graham). The main block comprises a two-storey basement and attic. The south front is constructed of ashlar stone and features six windows. The central two bays project forward with a prominent, single-storey Roman Doric portico supported by four columns, topped with a fanlight above the doorway. A cornice runs along the top of the building, and a plain parapet is present, with fluting in the centre. The north front is of rubble construction with stone margins and has three windows; the central bays are advanced and topped with a pediment.
The interior is simple but possesses distinctive detailing. A large entrance hall features a screen of simulated scagliola columns in the Roman Doric style, beyond which is an imperial staircase.
The house was built following earlier, unrealised plans: a design signed "SC" for a similar-sized house, and an elevation drawn by James Craig in 1770, which proposed improvements to an early 18th-century house. None of the earlier building appears to survive.
Local climate
Mountquhanie House receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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