Brae Cottage, Feddinch Mains is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 June 1979. Cottage.

Brae Cottage, Feddinch Mains

WRENN ID
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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
20 June 1979
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
NO 492 138
Coordinates
56.31418, -2.82259
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Brae Cottage at Feddinch Mains is an earlier 19th-century building. The northern end, known as No 1, is a single-storey structure made of rubble, featuring two doors and four windows on the south side. It has a piended pantiled roof with a central harled stack and an additional stack to the west. Nos 2 and 3, located at the southern end and dating from around 1860, form a U-plan with later harled wings at the rear. This section is also single-storey, constructed from whin boulder rubble with ashlar dressings. It has two doors and six windows on the east side, one of which is blocked, and two windows at the north end. At the rear, there are doors in the angles and three windows, with the central one having been a door previously. The roof is pantiled, with stacks made of brick and rubble, some of which are harled.

Local climate

Brae Cottage, Feddinch Mains receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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