Cottage No 2, David Scrymgeour Wedderburn Memorial Square, Balmerino is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 August 1973.

Cottage No 2, David Scrymgeour Wedderburn Memorial Square, Balmerino

WRENN ID
little-timber-mint
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
8 August 1973
OS grid reference
NO 357 245
Coordinates
56.40922, -3.04227
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Cottage No 1, located in David Scrymgeour Wedderburn Memorial Square in Balmerino, was built in 1948 by H.J. Scrymgeour Wedderburn, the Earl of Dundee. This traditional single-storey cottage features harled walls with margins and arched doorpieces that include fanlights. The roof is pantiled. The northern range consists of three cottages with a piend roof, while the eastern range also has three cottages with a piend roof and a central tetrastyle Roman Doric portico with a pediment that was previously located at Birkhill. The southern cottage has four windows and a central door. There is a rubble linking wall, a front wall, and steps, along with late Georgian cast-iron urns positioned at the terminal piers.

Local climate

Cottage No 2, David Scrymgeour Wedderburn Memorial Square, Balmerino receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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