The Cottage, 5 Stob Cross Road, Markinch is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 November 1972. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
The Cottage, 5 Stob Cross Road, Markinch
- WRENN ID
- stark-pillar-bone
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Glenrothes and Mid Fife MP: Richard Baker (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 24 November 1972
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- NO 296 020
- Coordinates
- 56.206, -3.13534
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Cottage, located at 5 Stob Cross Road in Markinch, is an earlier 19th-century building that has undergone later alterations and an addition. It is a single-storey, 6-bay cottage that was converted from a 2-bay structure, situated on a slope that descends to the south. The exterior features squared and snecked rubble with harl and ashlar quoins. Notable architectural details include stop-chamfered arrises and stone mullions.
On the east elevation, there is a panelled timber door with a plate glass fanlight at the center of the cottage, positioned to the right. Flanking this door are windows in the adjacent bays, along with an additional window in a single-bay piend-roofed extension to the outer right. To the left, there is a lower section of the cottage that includes a window to the right and a bipartite window to the left.
The windows are timber sash and case with a 4-pane glazing pattern. The roof is covered with pantiles, and there is an ashlar coped skew and a coped ashlar stack. Surrounding the property is a low semicircular-coped rubble boundary wall.
Local climate
The Cottage, 5 Stob Cross Road, Markinch 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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