Brickworks, Broomhall Policies is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 March 2001. Drying shed, chimney.
Brickworks, Broomhall Policies
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-minaret-russet
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Dunfermline and Dollar MP: Graeme Downie (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 23 March 2001
- Type
- Drying shed, chimney
- OS grid reference
- NT 072 841
- Coordinates
- 56.0415, -3.4901
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The building is a brickworks drying shed from the 1860s, featuring a single storey and a rectangular plan with six bays. It has brick buttress piers between the open bays, with brick infill in the southernmost bay. There are windows on the west and east sides, and a central window on the south gable, flanked by doors. The north gable has an infill wall and timber boarding above, reaching to the apex and sloping to the south. A brick chimney is located to the south, covered with red clay pantiles. The tall, square-plan brick chimney stack has a cornice and a nailhead band course.
Local climate
Brickworks, Broomhall Policies 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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