18 And 20 Main Street, West Wemyss is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 December 1972.

18 And 20 Main Street, West Wemyss

WRENN ID
dark-slate-hemlock
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Glenrothes and Mid Fife MP: Richard Baker (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
11 December 1972
Address
18 And 20 Main Street, West Wemyss, KY1 4SN
OS grid reference
NT 325 946
Coordinates
56.13979, -3.08644
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

2 and 4 Main Street in West Wemyss are early 19th-century terraced houses that have undergone later alterations. This row consists of five plain, two-storey, three-bay houses designed uniformly. The exterior features roughly coursed rubble, which was previously harled, with painted stone margins.

On the northwest elevation facing Main Street, numbers 2 and 4 have a central bay that originally contained a door but now has a window. To the right is a window, and to the left is a later bipartite window. The first floor has regular fenestration, with the central bay breaking the eaves into a steeply pedimented dormer head, while the left bay has a low eyelid dormer head.

For numbers 6 to 20, the central bay features a panelled timber door with a small window adjacent to the right, a window in the bay to the right, and a later bipartite window to the left. The first floor maintains regular fenestration as well.

All windows are currently blinded for protection. The roofs are covered with pantiles, and there are coped harled stacks with cans, along with ashlar-coped skews.

Local climate

18 And 20 Main Street, West Wemyss receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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