Priest's House, Kemback is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 June 1979. House.
Priest's House, Kemback
- 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
- 20 June 1979
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NO 418 151
- Coordinates
- 56.32513, -2.94229
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Priest's House in Kemback is a vernacular building dating from the 17th or early 18th century. It is two storeys high with crowstepped gables and has single storey wings. The building features a slated roof, rubble walls, and ashlar dressings, which include earlier elements such as a doorway with a key-blocked lintel and jamb-blocks adorned with paterae. On the north side, there is an external stone stair leading to the first floor. The property is surrounded by extensive garden walls; to the west of the main house, there is a wall with a clairvoie and early 19th century cast iron railings, while the rest of the wall is made of rubble with a rough triangular coping. This wall meets the Priest's House. Additionally, attached to the northeast corner of Kemback Beg is a secondary wall that includes a slated outbuilding and a former dovecote, which also ends at the Priest's House.
Local climate
Priest's House, Kemback receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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