Priory Farm Steading is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 January 1999. Steading. 1 related planning application.
Priory Farm Steading
- WRENN ID
- quartered-nave-raven
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 January 1999
- Type
- Steading
- OS grid reference
- NO 383 238
- Coordinates
- 56.4028, -3.00007
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Priory Farm Steading is a mid-19th century agricultural building, constructed after 1856. It features a rectangular plan with five linked ranges, including a long, slightly elevated granary and cartshed that houses a horsemill. The structure is built from random rubble with dressed margins.
On the south elevation, there is a five-bay layout, with each bay having its own piended roof. The second and fourth bays are broader than the others. To the right of the center bay, there is a broad, sliding boarded timber door, with similar openings in the flanking bays; the right bay also has a door. Additionally, there is another broad, sliding boarded timber door on the outer right and a standard doorway on the outer left.
The north elevation features a bay to the right of center that contains the horsemill, with wide openings to the southwest, northeast, and southwest. There is a small blocked opening to the north and a low arched opening to the south that leads into the interior of the main range. The center bay has a window, and to the left, there is a piended hayloft door that breaks the eaves. Beyond this, there are four flat-topped cart arches to the left, each with small granary openings above, except for the third bay, which has a door and a projecting slab at the base.
On the east elevation, there is a sliding boarded timber door in the center bay, while the taller bay to the outer left has a ground-level door and a window above it. Most openings are fitted with boarded timber doors. The roof is predominantly covered with graded grey and purple slate, with some areas featuring pantiles and asbestos.
Local climate
Priory Farm Steading receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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