Sandford Hotel is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 October 1973. 2 related planning applications.
Sandford Hotel
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 October 1973
- Address
- Sandford Hotel, DD6 8RG
- OS grid reference
- NO 406 241
- Coordinates
- 56.40595, -2.96339
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Sandford Hotel, initially Sandford Cottage, was designed by M.H. Baillie Scott for James Harben Valentine and built between 1901 and 1902. It is an example of the English Arts and Crafts style of an advanced nature. The house is laid out in an L-shape, with two storeys facing west and north, and a single storey with a double attic within the courtyard. It is harled externally, with steep red English tile roofs – originally thatched, but replaced after fire damage. The building incorporates an ingenious split-level design, including a 'sunk lounge' at the southern end, extending over two storeys with a tall, piend-roofed rectangular half-timbered bay, overlooking a pool below. A retaining wall and pergola form the third side of the courtyard, and a circular fountain made of ceramic tiles is present. On the north wing is a three-arch loggia, and there are steps leading down to the garden on the west side. The interior retains a simple, distinctive Arts and Crafts character, although it has been partly altered for hotel use. The design was documented by M.H. Baillie Scott in Houses and Gardens in 1906.
Local climate
Sandford Hotel receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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