Buckthorns is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 March 1984. 2 related planning applications.

Buckthorns

WRENN ID
twelfth-kitchen-dawn
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
1 March 1984
Address
Buckthorns, KY8 6EA
OS grid reference
NO 429 032
Coordinates
56.21866, -2.92176
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Buckthorns is an early 19th-century farmhouse of late Georgian design. The main block is two storeys and has an attic, with three bays. It is built of local whin rubble with long and short ashlar dressings. The central door is located behind a pedimented and glazed timber porch, and is flanked by two windows set within shallow, segmentally arched recessed panels. The window glazing has been altered. There are three windows on the first floor. The roof is slate, with straight skews and corniced end stacks. A single-storey, single-bay wing with a piended roof extends from one side, along with a brick extension to the left. The statutory address is Buckthorns Farm House.

Local climate

Buckthorns 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 greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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