Gilston House is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 March 1984. Mansion.
Gilston House
- WRENN ID
- silent-finial-sunrise
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1984
- Type
- Mansion
- OS grid reference
- NO 450 066
- Coordinates
- 56.24929, -2.88905
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Gilston House is a later 19th century, two-storey mansion featuring classical details and incorporating elements from an earlier house to the north. The building is constructed of polished ashlar, while the earlier fabric is harled. The symmetrical south front consists of five bays, with giant angle clasping pilasters. The central bay is slightly advanced, taller, and topped with a pediment. A round-headed carved oak door with a fanlight and sidelights is set behind an Ionic-columned and balustraded porch, with a Venetian window above.
The windows are adorned with apron panels in architraves that connect to the plinth at the ground level and to a string course at the first floor. The ground floor windows feature consoled pediments, and the building has pierced balustrades with terminal urns. The roof includes corniced stacks and a combination of piended and platform slate roofing. The east and west elevations are similarly detailed, each with three bays and tripartite windows in the outer bays.
Local climate
Gilston House 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 greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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