Gate Piers, Bowbutts House, Bruce Terrace, Kinghorn is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 September 1979. Gatepiers, boundary wall. 1 related planning application.

Gate Piers, Bowbutts House, Bruce Terrace, Kinghorn

WRENN ID
twisted-step-dew
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
10 September 1979
Type
Gatepiers, boundary wall
OS grid reference
NT 270 873
Coordinates
56.07319, -3.17292
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The gate piers and gates at Bowbutts House on Bruce Terrace in Kinghorn are likely from the 18th century. They consist of a pair of cylindrical ashlar gate piers that are topped with cornices and flat coping, each crowned with elaborately moulded urns. The gates themselves are made of later ironwork.

The enclosing boundary walls are also from the 18th century and feature high, semicircular-coped rubble construction. The lower boundary wall at the rear of Bowbutts House, located to the northwest, is capped with clinker stone.

Local climate

Gate Piers, Bowbutts House, Bruce Terrace, Kinghorn receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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