Terraced Garden, Balcaskie House is a Grade A listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 March 1984. Garden.
Terraced Garden, Balcaskie House
- WRENN ID
- sacred-buttress-bittern
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1984
- Type
- Garden
- OS grid reference
- NO 524 035
- Coordinates
- 56.22175, -2.76761
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Terraced Garden at Balcaskie House is a late 17th century Italian garden attributed to Sir William Bruce. The garden features terraces that are divided by balustraded walls, which support urns. There are balustraded steps connecting the different levels, and bold buttresses that hold classical busts. A pilastered keyblocked arch with ball finials is located above the cornice and blocking course, and a cast-iron gate provides access from the upper terrace to the park. A sundial is present in the garden, and two lead statues frame the long vista on the upper terrace. The stairs, designed by W A Nesfield around 1895, include channelled and keyblocked arched gateways along with rococo cast-iron gates.
Local climate
Terraced Garden, Balcaskie House receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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