Steading, Mount Melville Home Farm is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 June 1979. Farm steading. 3 related planning applications.

Steading, Mount Melville Home Farm

WRENN ID
keen-thatch-amber
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
20 June 1979
Type
Farm steading
Address
Steading, Mount Melville Home Farm, KY16 8NG
OS grid reference
NO 482 144
Coordinates
56.31962, -2.83745
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Steading at Mount Melville Home Farm is an earlier 19th-century building that underwent alterations in the late 19th century. The southwest corner of the north block was constructed between 1893 and 1911, featuring a mix of boulder rubble and whinstone, while the south block is made of snecked rubble. The north elevation includes circular horsemill openings that have been infilled with doors and windows, topped with a conical slated roof and a fine wrought-iron weathervane.

There is a piended link block connecting to a good single-storey and loft range, which has two semi-elliptical cartshed arches at the west end and five loft windows above. The piended slated roof has a piended loft opening in the west elevation. The south elevation displays two clumsy crowstepped gables from a 20th-century rebuild, a central oculus window, and a square turret to the east.

Various piended and gabled ranges, along with detached outbuildings to the east, feature slated roofs and some ventilators. The later south range includes garages in the west elevation and two tripartite piended dormers. The interiors of the garages are half tiled, and the walkway floors are paved with setts. A curved rubble bastion wall encloses the group to the north.

Local climate

Steading, Mount Melville Home Farm receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% 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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