Summer House, Pittencrieff Park, Dunfermline is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 March 2000. Summerhouse.

Summer House, Pittencrieff Park, Dunfermline

WRENN ID
spare-lantern-sparrow
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Dunfermline and Dollar MP: Graeme Downie (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
10 March 2000
Type
Summerhouse
OS grid reference
NT 087 873
Coordinates
56.0699, -3.46808
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Summer House in Pittencrieff Park, Dunfermline, was built in 1906. It has an octagonal plan and is an open-sided rustic Chinese-style structure. The base is made of rubble and is built into the sloping land. Upright timber poles, which are braced at the apex, support an octagonal conical roof that is splayed at the base. The original thatched roof has been replaced with asphalt.

Local climate

Summer House, Pittencrieff Park, Dunfermline receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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