Primrose Cottage, Primrose Lane, Dunfermline is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 January 1971. House.

Primrose Cottage, Primrose Lane, Dunfermline

WRENN ID
north-ember-winter
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Dunfermline and Dollar MP: Graeme Downie (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 January 1971
Type
House
OS grid reference
NT 103 841
Coordinates
56.04202, -3.44043
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Primrose Cottage is an early 19th-century former farmhouse that has undergone later alterations. It is a two-storey building with an attic and a rectangular plan, featuring three bays. The exterior is harled, with painted ashlar and painted concrete dressings, and includes a base course and an eaves band on the principal south elevation. The windows have architraved openings with vertical margins at the angles. The gables have partially concreted coping and scrolled skewputts, which are likely replacements.

On the south elevation, the arrangement is symmetrical, with a central entrance that features a late 20th-century part-glazed gabled timber porch and a replacement panelled timber door. There are flanking windows on both the ground and first floors, as well as one above the entrance.

The north elevation has an irregular arrangement, with an entrance to the left that includes a replacement part-glazed timber door, flanking windows, a stair window to the left of centre, and a first-floor window to the left.

The east elevation features a window to the right on the first floor and a small attic window to the left of the gable. The west elevation has a large window, likely inserted, to the left on both the ground and first floors, along with a small attic window to the right of the gable.

Most windows are 12-pane timber sash and case. The roof is covered with grey slate, and there are rendered replacement gablehead stacks with concrete coping on either side. The interior was not inspected in 1999.

Local climate

Primrose Cottage, Primrose Lane, Dunfermline receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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