North Lodge And Gates, Balcarres House is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 February 1972. 2 related planning applications.
North Lodge And Gates, Balcarres House
- WRENN ID
- spare-slate-tallow
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 1 February 1972
- Address
- North Lodge And Gates, Balcarres House, KY9 1HP
- OS grid reference
- NO 475 054
- Coordinates
- 56.23868, -2.84731
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
North Lodge and Gates was designed by Sir Robert Lorimer and built in 1897-8. It is a small, square, single-storey building with an attic. The building is constructed of harled stone, with a slated pyramid roof. Dormers are stone sculpted. A corner roundel is a distinctive feature. The lodge is set within rusticated stone piers, topped by lions couchant. Curved approach walls have perforated panels, and a fine wrought-iron gate bears armorial shields. References to the lodge appear in Hussey’s work on Lorimer, including illustrations and a plan.
Local climate
North Lodge And Gates, Balcarres 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 greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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
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