8 North Row, Charlestown is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 December 1971.
8 North Row, Charlestown
- WRENN ID
- drifting-tin-grain
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Dunfermline and Dollar MP: Graeme Downie (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 31 December 1971
- OS grid reference
- NT 066 837
- Coordinates
- 56.03729, -3.50009
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
12 North Row in Charlestown is a row of six symmetrical single-storey cottages, dating from the later 18th century to the early 19th century. The two central cottages have attics, and brick upper storeys were added around 1850. The exterior is made of rendered sandstone, with pebble dash on number 11.
The south elevation features three symmetrical bays, each with a central door and flanking windows. The west elevation has a plain gable, while the north elevation includes some contemporary rear wings and modern extensions. The east elevation has a window in the gable wall.
The cottages have 2-pane sash and case windows at numbers 8 and 9, while numbers 7, 11, and 12 have replacement windows. Box windows flank the central front door of number 10, which is covered by a continuous canopy that forms a porch. Number 9 has two pitched dormer windows, and number 10 has two flat-headed dormer windows. The cottages have a continuous piended slate roof, which is interrupted by raised pitched slate roofs on numbers 9 and 10, with slate laid in diminishing courses. There is a single shared ridge stack for numbers 7 and 8, gable apex stacks for numbers 9 and 10, a shared central ridge stack, and a gable end stack for number 12.
The interiors were not seen in 2000.
Local climate
8 North Row, Charlestown receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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