Gamekeeper's Cottage, Balbirnie House, Balbirnie Park is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 March 1996. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Gamekeeper's Cottage, Balbirnie House, Balbirnie Park
- WRENN ID
- grey-transept-fen
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Glenrothes and Mid Fife MP: Richard Baker (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1996
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Gamekeeper's Cottage, Balbirnie House, Balbirnie Park, KY7 6JU
- OS grid reference
- NO 294 026
- Coordinates
- 56.21113, -3.13968
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Gamekeeper's Cottage, located at Balbirnie House in Balbirnie Park, dates from the late 19th century and has been altered at the rear. It is a single-storey cottage with an attic and features three bays. The exterior is constructed from dressed, squared rubble with droved quoins and includes a base course and chamfered arrises.
The south elevation, which serves as the entrance, is symmetrical. It has a two-leaf panelled timber door with a two-pane fanlight above, all sheltered by a slated timber porch that features decorative bargeboarding and a finial that breaks the eaves. There are windows in the flanking bays, with canted, slated dormer windows above, and a three-flue ridge stack at the centre.
On the west elevation, there is a narrow window to the left of centre, with two additional windows beyond it in a lower extension. A window in the gablehead has been blocked. The east elevation has a window at the centre and another blocked window in the gablehead. The north elevation features a bipartite window off centre right, and a flat-roofed, slate-hung dormer window at the centre above a lower extension that projects at the outer right.
The south elevation has a 20-pane glazing pattern at ground level, with a prominent vertical astragal at the centre. The dormers feature five and ten lying pane glazing patterns, all in timber sash and case windows. Other windows have top-opening timber frames. The cottage has cavetto coped ashlar stacks with some chimney cans, overhanging eaves, and plain bargeboarding.
The property is enclosed by coped rubble boundary walls.
Local climate
Gamekeeper's Cottage, 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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