Garden Wall, Pittormie is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 March 1984.
Garden Wall, Pittormie
- WRENN ID
- spare-quoin-gilt
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1984
- OS grid reference
- NO 416 185
- Coordinates
- 56.35528, -2.9458
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The gate-piers at Pittormie date back to 1764, with significant baronial additions and alterations made in 1867 by architect John Milne of St Andrews. The east elevation features the original three-storey, four-bay house, with the central two bays protruding, adorned with crow-stepped gables. It includes an original doorpiece with a blocked architrave, a keystoned pediment, and a date inscription. Conical-roofed angle turrets have been added to the outer bays, which are corbelled at the second floor and in the northern re-entrant angle. The right bay has been raised and gabled, while the left bay features a pedimented dormer. All gables are crow-stepped, with panelled and corniced apex stacks, and the roofs are slated with finials.
Single-storey ranges create a U-plan courtyard, also altered by Milne in 1867, which may include a malt kiln against the north wall of the north range. A tall, four-storey square tower has been added to the northwest, featuring a circular stair tower that rises through a corbelled and crenellated parapet. The symmetrical south elevation includes a two-storey west wing with irregular fenestration, highlighted by a two-storey canted window at the west with a tall faceted roof. There have been various modern additions and modifications, including extensive one and two-storey additions to the south in 1867.
Inside, there are some original 18th-century panelling, simple plasterwork, and twisted cast-iron stair balusters. The 1867 extensions feature some wooden panelling, chimney pieces, and door furniture that are reputedly from Old Dunnikeir House, according to the owner. A later 19th-century fountain located to the south is heavily overgrown with ivy. It has a quatrefoil ashlar basin with moulded coping, and a terra cotta fountain on a rubble plinth with six lion mask spouts, topped centrally by three partially robed figures supporting the basin. The rubble-built garden wall is stepped with ashlar coping and a band course, featuring a single round ashlar angle turret on a splayed rock-faced plinth with a corbelled parapet at the southeast corner, likely designed by John Milne. The corniced, square rusticated ashlar gatepiers are also probably from 1764, and they are complemented by wrought-iron gates with a concave upper rail.
Local climate
Garden Wall, Pittormie 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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