Rainbow Cottage (Prior Letham Smithy) is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 June 1979. Smithy, house. 2 related planning applications.
Rainbow Cottage (Prior Letham Smithy)
- WRENN ID
- pitched-spindle-larch
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 June 1979
- Type
- Smithy, house
- Address
- Rainbow Cottage (Prior Letham Smithy), KY16 8NR
- OS grid reference
- NO 490 129
- Coordinates
- 56.3064, -2.82472
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Rainbow Cottage, also known as Prior Letham Smithy, dates from around 1850 and features a Jacobean style with a single storey and a dormerless attic. The building is constructed of snecked rubble with polished end broached ashlar dressings. It has margined openings with a chamfer detail. The house includes a central gablet porch that has an attic light and two windows. To the left, there is a slightly advanced smithy gable, which is broad and features a large window along with a louvred opening in the gable.
On the left side, there is a set-back single-storey brick wing with a piended roof. The building has coped skews with steps at half their height and skewputts. The roofs are slated and have ashlar stacks, with polygonal shafts at the house, although the right-hand shaft is missing. There is one window on the south gable, which has a pebble dashed outshot.
Local climate
Rainbow Cottage (Prior Letham Smithy) receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- 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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