Embo, High Street, Falkland is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 December 1971.

Embo, High Street, Falkland

WRENN ID
muffled-storey-river
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
1 December 1971
OS grid reference
NO 250 073
Coordinates
56.25291, -3.21171
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Bayne's House, located on High Street in Falkland, was built in 1752. This two-storey building features three windows and is constructed from rubble with patches of blue whinstone. It has a plain architrave, a pulvinated frieze, and a cornice above the door. The house also has a moulded eaves course and a crowstepped gable roof that is slated. Attached to it is Embo, a single-storey and attic structure with a crowstepped gable facing the street, positioned at right angles to Bayne's House. Embo includes a late piended porch in the angle.

Local climate

Embo, High Street, Falkland receives an average of 900 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 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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