The Grey House, The Square, Kingsbarns is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 November 1971.

The Grey House, The Square, Kingsbarns

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
23 November 1971
Address
The Grey House, The Square, Kingsbarns, KY16 8SS
OS grid reference
NO 593 120
Coordinates
56.29921, -2.65779
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Grey House is a late 18th century two-storey, three-window house. It is harled with margins and has a moulded eaves course. A later consoled canopy shelters the original front door, which features a fanlight. The roof is slated, with one gable crowstepped at the rear. A single-storey outbuilding is located at the south gable. The listing includes the garden walls and outbuildings.

Local climate

The Grey House, The Square, Kingsbarns receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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