Walled Garden, Balgonie Castle is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 September 1979. Garden.

Walled Garden, Balgonie Castle

WRENN ID
gaunt-keystone-heron
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Glenrothes and Mid Fife MP: Richard Baker (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
10 September 1979
Type
Garden
OS grid reference
NO 309 006
Coordinates
56.1933, -3.11348
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Walled Garden at Balgonie Castle dates from the late 18th to early 19th century. It has a rectangular plan measuring 170 meters by 280 meters, with a dividing wall running east to west, which is in a state of disrepair in some areas. The garden features high random rubble walls with gablet coping. There is an opening to the east that includes quoins and the remains of moulded piers.

Local climate

Walled Garden, Balgonie Castle receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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