Kettle Old Parish Church And Churchyard With Watchhouse, Main Street, Kingskettle is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 March 1984. Cemetery enclosure.

Kettle Old Parish Church And Churchyard With Watchhouse, Main Street, Kingskettle

WRENN ID
woven-gallery-fog
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
1 March 1984
Type
Cemetery enclosure
OS grid reference
NO 310 083
Coordinates
56.2622, -3.1143
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Kettle Old Parish Church and its churchyard, located on Main Street in Kingskettle, primarily feature 19th century construction. The churchyard is enclosed by rubble-built walls. In the west wall, there are two square, dressed ashlar piers topped with flat pyramidal caps, along with decorative cast-iron gates. On the north wall, there is a small, single-storey watchhouse built from rubble, which has a central door flanked by blind windows. The watchhouse has a steeply pitched gabled roof made of corrugated iron, with a single stack at the apex. The site also contains several interesting monuments from the 17th to 19th centuries.

Local climate

Kettle Old Parish Church And Churchyard With Watchhouse, Main Street, Kingskettle receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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