Barnsmuir Farmhouse And Steading is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 September 1980. 5 related planning applications.
Barnsmuir Farmhouse And Steading
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-transept-quill
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 September 1980
- Address
- Barnsmuir Farmhouse And Steading, KY10 3XB
- OS grid reference
- NO 596 062
- Coordinates
- 56.24736, -2.65331
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Barnsmuir Farmhouse and Steading dates to the later 18th century, with additions from the later 19th century. The layout is of a double courtyard design. The south range is symmetrical, with the farmhouse situated centrally and linked by screen walls to the gables of the east and west ranges.
The farmhouse is a three-bay, two-storey and attic structure built of coursed rubble with droved dressings. The main entrance, originally with a fanlight, is now masked by a modern porch. A later 19th-century advanced bay to the right features a canted bay window and a piended roof. The roof is slated, with straight skews to the front and crowsteps to the rear, and it has rectangular end stacks with cavetto cornices. The south gable of the west range is built of rubble with droved dressings, and includes a blocked window at its centre. It also has straight skews and a square ashlar end stack. The south gable of the east range is similarly constructed but harled.
The courtyard ranges of the steading are single-storey, with a loft above, and feature segmental-headed cart-sheds. The mid and north ranges have central segmental-headed pedestrian entrances (pends). These ranges are built of rubble with droved ashlar dressings, with pantiled roofs. Part of the south courtyard has been infilled with later single-storey, rubble and pantile ranges.
Modern buildings to the east are not included in the listing.
Local climate
Barnsmuir Farmhouse And Steading receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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