Boathouse, Gilston House is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 March 1984. Boathouse.

Boathouse, Gilston House

WRENN ID
cold-footing-woodpecker
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
1 March 1984
Type
Boathouse
OS grid reference
NO 448 066
Coordinates
56.24932, -2.89154
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Boathouse at Gilston House was designed by the architects Gillespie & Scott of St Andrews and built in 1899. It is a rectangular structure featuring a verandah on all sides and a small chamber above. The boathouse is timber framed with horizontal boarding resting on an ashlar base. There is a lintelled boat opening with a valance on the west side and a door on the east side. The verandah above is balustraded, and the principal posts are shaped above the balustrade, supporting a pyramidal slate roof.

Local climate

Boathouse, Gilston House 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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