Ritchie Cottage, 23 Links Road, Earlsferry is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 January 1980. House.

Ritchie Cottage, 23 Links Road, Earlsferry

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
8 January 1980
Type
House
OS grid reference
NT 481 998
Coordinates
56.18842, -2.83697
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Ritchie Cottage, located at 23 Links Road in Earlsferry, is an 18th-century, two-storey building with a harled exterior and painted margins. The front of the cottage features two windows facing the road, along with a narrow, off-centre window on the ground floor. It has a pantiled roof with skews, one of which has steps for roof access, and harled stacks. The south elevation also has two windows and includes railed forestair steps leading to a door on the first floor, with twisted iron balusters. The ground floor has a door beneath these steps. The windows are reglazed, four-pane sashes. There is a garage addition on the east side of the cottage.

Local climate

Ritchie Cottage, 23 Links Road, Earlsferry receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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