Balmerino Cottage, Letham is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 March 1984. Cottage.
Balmerino Cottage, Letham
- WRENN ID
- spare-keystone-azure
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- NO 306 145
- Coordinates
- 56.31837, -3.12344
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Balmerino Cottage in Letham is a picturesque single-storey Gothic cottage, possibly built in 1790. The cottage is constructed from coursed squared whinstone with contrasting droved yellow ashlar dressings.
On the south elevation, there is an off-centre modern glazed door, flanked by two 12-pane sash windows in a broad bowed bay to the right, and a single small 4-pane sash window beyond. To the left of the door, there is an ogival-headed window with lying panes, along with an additional sash window in the outer bay. The cottage features a narrow eaves band, projecting eaves, and corniced stacks. The slated roof curves over the bowed bay and has a ship finial, with a gabled left side and a piended right side.
The east elevation has three windows, one of which has lattice glazing. The cottage is enclosed by high, rubble-built garden walls.
Local climate
Balmerino Cottage, Letham receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% 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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