Myrtlebank, Sandhaven, Culross is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 July 1973. House.
Myrtlebank, Sandhaven, Culross
- WRENN ID
- north-shingle-harvest
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Dunfermline and Dollar MP: Graeme Downie (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1973
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NS 985 859
- Coordinates
- 56.05549, -3.63014
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Myrtlebank is a house located in Sandhaven, Culross, dating from the late 18th to early 19th century. It is a two-storey building with an attic and features three bays. The exterior is made of exposed coursed rubble, with blocked ashlar surrounds around the windows and door.
The south elevation is symmetrical, with a central door flanked by windows and three first-floor windows above. The west elevation has three ground floor windows and two larger first-floor windows, with architraves of narrower, former windows visible below. There are also two small square attic windows. The north elevation is partially visible, featuring a ground floor door to the left and two first-floor windows. The east elevation includes a ground floor window, which was formerly a door, to the left, a first-floor window to the left, and a small square attic window above. Mint Lea is attached to the right side.
The windows are 12-pane timber sash and case types with horns. The openings on the west elevation have been altered. The roof is pitched with a kneelered gable and rounded skewputts, and there are corniced gable apex stacks. The roof is covered with replacement Roman tiles. The interior was not seen as of 2001.
Local climate
Myrtlebank, Sandhaven, Culross sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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