Archway, Rossend Castle, Burntisland is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 September 1979. Archway.
Archway, Rossend Castle, Burntisland
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-cornice-vermeil
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 10 September 1979
- Type
- Archway
- OS grid reference
- NT 229 858
- Coordinates
- 56.05924, -3.23879
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The archway at Rossend Castle in Burntisland dates from the mid-19th century but features elements dated 1382. It serves as a carriage archway flanked by turrets and an adjacent pedestrian archway. The structure is built from rubble with stugged ashlar quoins and dressings, and includes a base course, raked course, corbelling, and a crenellated parapet.
On the east elevation, the pointed carriage arch has a segmental bracing inner arch, with flanking piers topped by corbelled circular bartizans that are connected by a crenellated parapet. The spandrels feature small panels; the left panel displays a crown, entwined initials, and the date 1565, while the right panel shows a crown over a shield bearing a cross, dated 1119. The bartizans include cross gunloops, and the center of the crenellated parapet features a crown over a lion on a shield with the date '1582'. To the right, there is a lower rounded pedestrian archway inscribed 'Rossend' and dated '1382', with a blind tablet above it, topped by semicircular coping and adjacent to a coped rubble boundary wall on the outer right.
The west elevation features a chamfered corner on the outer right and a pedestrian archway to the left.
Local climate
Archway, Rossend Castle, Burntisland 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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