Abbey View And Post Office, Low Causeway, Culross is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 July 1973. House. 5 related planning applications.

Abbey View And Post Office, Low Causeway, Culross

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Dunfermline and Dollar MP: Graeme Downie (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
19 July 1973
Type
House
Address
Abbey View And Post Office, Low Causeway, Culross, KY12 8HN
OS grid reference
NS 986 858
Coordinates
56.05477, -3.62866
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Abbey View and Post Office is a late 18th century, two-storey, three-bay house that now functions as a post office and shop on the ground floor, with a flat above. The building features black painted ashlar margins, an eaves course, and vertical margins on the main elevation, which is harled.

On the north (principal) elevation, there is a cast-iron letter-box on the far left, marked GVIR by WT Allen & Co, London. To the right and far right are windows, with a central flat-roofed porch flanked by windows on either side. There are two doors leading from the porch, and three evenly spaced windows on the first floor. A door on the far left provides access to the garden and outhouse.

The east elevation is plain, while the south elevation is partially visible, featuring ground floor windows on the far left and far right, with first floor windows centered above. There is a central flat-roofed extension with a small ground floor window to the right and a large first floor window in the center. A small pitched outhouse is attached to the left, with windows on both the left and right returns.

The west elevation is mostly obscured at the ground floor, with a plain gable above. The front of the building has four-pane timber sash and case windows, while the rear has modern fenestration. There is a rear rooflight on the right, and timber boarded doors throughout. The roof is pitched and covered with slate, featuring coped gable apex stacks and circular chimney cans. The raised skews have scroll skewputts on the north side, and there is a tall square chimney for the outhouse.

The interior has a modern shop layout, while other areas were not seen as of 2001.

Local climate

Abbey View And Post Office, Low Causeway, 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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