3, 5, 7 And 9 Main Street, West Wemyss is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 March 1999. Tenement. 1 related planning application.
3, 5, 7 And 9 Main Street, West Wemyss
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-jamb-summer
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Glenrothes and Mid Fife MP: Richard Baker (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 March 1999
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- 3, 5, 7 And 9 Main Street, West Wemyss, KY1 4SN
- OS grid reference
- NT 325 946
- Coordinates
- 56.13996, -3.08656
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
3, 5, 7 and 9 Main Street in West Wemyss is an early 19th-century, two-storey, six-bay tenement that was altered in the early 20th century. The building is harled with stone margins and features stone mullions.
On the southeast elevation facing Main Street, No 1 is located to the left of the centre and has two windows on each floor. The slightly taller block includes Nos 3 and 7 at the centre and Nos 5 and 9 to the right, each with two bipartite windows on each floor. The outer right corner has a rounded angle that is corbelled to a square at the first floor.
The southwest elevation features a gabled section for No 1, with windows positioned to the right and left of centre on the ground floor, and a central window on the first floor. There is a screen wall with a round-arched entrance on the outer left.
On the northeast elevation, which faces Broad Wynd, there is a window to the right of centre on the first floor.
The building has timber sash and case windows with a 12-pane glazing pattern. The stacks are coped and harled, with cans. The roof is covered with pantiles, and the skews are ashlar-coped with block skewputts.
The boundary walls are made of coped rubble.
Local climate
3, 5, 7 And 9 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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