Boat House, Balgownie House, Culross is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 July 1973. Boathouse.

Boat House, Balgownie House, Culross

WRENN ID
western-glass-woodpecker
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Dunfermline and Dollar MP: Graeme Downie (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
19 July 1973
Type
Boathouse
OS grid reference
NS 983 858
Coordinates
56.05484, -3.63303
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Boat House at Balgownie House in Culross is an earlier to mid-19th century structure. It is a single-storey, rectangular-plan building with a barrel-vaulted roof. The exterior is made of sandstone rubble, featuring alternate upturned and flat coping stones that create serrated edges along the segmentally-arched gable ends at the north and south. There is a low plinth on the east and west sides. The entrance door is located on the north side and is a replacement metal door. The south gable end is breeze blocked, and the roof is made of stone. Inside, the floor is composed of rubble.

Local climate

Boat House, Balgownie House, Culross sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% 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 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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