Drumdryan Quarry Powder Magazine is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 December 2010. Gunpowder magazine.
Drumdryan Quarry Powder Magazine
- WRENN ID
- far-spandrel-vale
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 December 2010
- Type
- Gunpowder magazine
- OS grid reference
- NO 384 132
- Coordinates
- 56.30786, -2.99696
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Drumdryan Quarry Powder Magazine is a former gunpowder magazine, likely built before 1852. It is a rare example of a steeply vaulted, Gothic arched structure with a rectangular plan. The building features dressed ashlar stone and an ashlar roof. The long side elevations are battered up to approximately doorhead height, with the vaulted roof supported by a full-width dripstone.
The eastern entrance elevation has a gabled design, with the remains of a metal-framed door at the center and a small slit ventilator above, featuring an iron grille. The western elevation is similar but does not have a door. The long, low side elevations are located below the dripstones, with the southern side having a small indirect ventilator opening near the ground, while the northern side has a large area of broken wall at the center.
Inside, as observed in 2010, there are rows of small holes that suggest the presence of possible wall-mounted racking, along with a single small ventilator opening in the southern wall.
Local climate
Drumdryan Quarry Powder Magazine receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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