5 Tanhouse Brae, Culross is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 January 1972. House. 3 related planning applications.
5 Tanhouse Brae, Culross
- WRENN ID
- lunar-slate-marsh
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Dunfermline and Dollar MP: Graeme Downie (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1972
- Type
- House
- Address
- 5 Tanhouse Brae, Culross, KY12 8HX
- OS grid reference
- NS 987 859
- Coordinates
- 56.05589, -3.62792
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
5 Tanhouse Brae is a 17th-century, two-storey, two-bay house located in Culross. The exterior is harled with painted chamfered surrounds for the windows and doors.
On the northwest elevation, there is a central door with a window to the right, and a small square window above the door. There is also a first-floor window to the right. The threshold stone extends over an open street drain.
The northeast elevation is attached to Shoemaker's Cottage, while the southwest elevation is connected to Tanbrae House. The house features four-pane and two-pane timber sash and case windows, along with a timber panelled door. The pitched roof is covered with slates and has raised skews, with a curved skewputt on the southwest. The gable apex has stacks, with a replacement stack on the northeast and both polygonal and circular cans.
The interior was not seen in 2001.
Local climate
5 Tanhouse Brae, 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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