Wellfield Cottage, 3 Queen Street, Tayport is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 2 May 1973. Cottage.

Wellfield Cottage, 3 Queen Street, Tayport

WRENN ID
gentle-crypt-dawn
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
2 May 1973
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
NO 458 285
Coordinates
56.44627, -2.8804
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Wellfield Cottage, located at 3 Queen Street in Tayport, dates from around 1835. It is a single-storey building constructed from whin rubble, featuring sandstone dressings. The cottage has a projected centre with a concave gable and a fanlight above the doorpiece, which is adorned with a cornice. There is one window on the other side of the entrance. The roof is slated.

Local climate

Wellfield Cottage, 3 Queen Street, Tayport 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 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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