Robertson's House, Sandhaven, Culross is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 January 1972. House.

Robertson's House, Sandhaven, Culross

WRENN ID
crumbling-entrance-equinox
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Dunfermline and Dollar MP: Graeme Downie (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 January 1972
Type
House
OS grid reference
NS 985 859
Coordinates
56.05541, -3.63053
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Robertson's House in Sandhaven, Culross, is a 17th-century L-plan house that was converted around 1958 by I G Lindsay & Partners. It stands three stories high and features three bays, with a white harling exterior and ashlar surrounds for the windows and doors. The gable of the house faces Sandhaven.

The south elevation is symmetrical, with a wide central door flanked by windows, and three windows on both the first and second floors. Above the door is a plaque from the National Trust for Scotland, and a sundial is located between the first and second windows on the first floor.

On the west elevation, there are small windows, with a central ground floor window and another window above it to the left, while the right side has a first-floor window. There is a roll-moulded door on the left return with a first-floor window above it. A rear wing is set back to the left, featuring a door on the right and a window to the left of the door. The central area has a door and a small square window on the far left, along with two first-floor windows and two second-floor catslide dormer windows.

The north elevation is plain with remnants of a former building visible. The east elevation has a small ground floor window to the center right and five first-floor windows, including a small square window on the far left and between the second and third windows. There are four second-floor catslide dormer windows.

The house predominantly features 12-pane timber sash and case windows with chamfered surrounds. The doors are replacement timber studded doors. The roof is pitched with crowstepped gables, and there are corniced gable apex stacks along with a corniced ridge stack.

A tall rubble wall runs from the northeast gable northwards. Inside, a rear door leads to a stone turnpike stair, and the interiors have been modernized since the 1958 conversion.

Local climate

Robertson's House, Sandhaven, Culross sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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