Forbes House, The Causeway, Kennoway is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 June 1973.

Forbes House, The Causeway, Kennoway

WRENN ID
keen-basalt-nightshade
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
27 June 1973
OS grid reference
NO 349 022
Coordinates
56.20874, -3.04985
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Forbes House is a circa 1800, two-story, three-bay house situated on the west side of The Causeway in Kennoway. The construction is of squared rubble, with rusticated quoins and raised margins, and features an eaves lintel course.

The west elevation presents a symmetrical facade. A modern door is centrally positioned at ground level, flanked by windows, with regular window placement on the first floor. The ground floor window is fitted with modern plate glass and a top-opening mechanism, while the first-floor windows are pivot windows. The roof is tiled, with coped ashlar and harl stacks topped with cans.

The property includes rubble boundary walls.

Local climate

Forbes House, The Causeway, Kennoway receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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