Mausoleum, Kellie Castle is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 March 1989. Mausoleum.
Mausoleum, Kellie Castle
- WRENN ID
- last-chalk-snow
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1989
- Type
- Mausoleum
- OS grid reference
- NO 518 050
- Coordinates
- 56.2351, -2.778
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Kellie Mausoleum is an ornamental building constructed in the second half of the 18th century. It features two recumbent memorial slabs at the front, with the earlier one commemorating the 7th Earl of Kellie, who died in 1797. However, he is believed to be buried abroad, suggesting that the mausoleum may have originally served as an eyecatcher or folly rather than being built specifically around 1797. The structure has a rectangular plan and a monopitch roof, with the south front displaying a blind gothic window that may have been blocked at some point. There is an entrance door located on the west flank, although the original use of the interior remains uncertain. The building is constructed from rubble with squared dressings, has an ashlar window, and is topped with a slate roof.
Local climate
Mausoleum, Kellie Castle 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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