Walled Garden, Balbirnie House, Balbirnie Park is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 March 1996. Walled garden.
Walled Garden, Balbirnie House, Balbirnie Park
- WRENN ID
- burning-keep-jet
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Glenrothes and Mid Fife MP: Richard Baker (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1996
- Type
- Walled garden
- OS grid reference
- NO 291 022
- Coordinates
- 56.20769, -3.14417
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Walled Garden at Balbirnie House, built between 1784 and 1786 by Robert Robinson and altered in 1863, possibly by David Bryce, features coped rubble walls with rounded corners. The walls have been heightened and lined with coped brick to accommodate a heating system on the northern side, and they include polished ashlar and sandstone dressings.
On the northern boundary, there is a range of lean-to rubble outbuildings with droved quoins, along with an 8-bay implement shed supported by 7 cast iron columns across the center and eastern side of the northern elevation. A pedestrian gate to the west is accompanied by a hand bell. The southern elevation contains late 19th-century lean-to greenhouses, which are in poor condition and feature a small pane glazing pattern.
The southern boundary has a widened opening at the center that provides access to a lower boundary wall beyond, although some top courses to the west are missing. The western boundary includes a two-leaf timber gate set in a round-headed opening with rusticated quoins and voussoirs. The gate is monogrammed with entwined "B's" (representing Balfour of Balbirnie) on the eastern side and features a decorative date panel on the western side.
The eastern boundary consists of rubble over squared and coursed rubble, with an abutting wall to the east that has large quoins, suggesting evidence of a former doorway. The outer boundary to the south and east is marked by a low coped rubble wall, which includes a pyramidal coped ashlar pier to the southwest and a holly hedge. To the north, there is a high terrace wall.
Local climate
Walled Garden, Balbirnie House, Balbirnie Park receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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