4 Kirk Cottages, Aberdour is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 2 May 1973. 1 related planning application.
4 Kirk Cottages, Aberdour
- WRENN ID
- wild-panel-hawthorn
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 2 May 1973
- Address
- 4 Kirk Cottages, Aberdour, KY3 0SR
- OS grid reference
- NT 187 852
- Coordinates
- 56.0528, -3.30601
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
3 Kirk Cottages in Aberdour is a row of four nearly identical, 18th-century houses, each with later alterations. They are two stories high with a rectangular plan and feature a single-storey extension at the rear. The cottages have rendered walls with painted stone margins around the openings.
On the south elevation, the arrangement of the houses is symmetrical, with a central door leading to a timber and glazed porch, flanked by windows. Above, there are three first-floor windows aligned with the ground floor openings. The west elevation has a ground floor window to the right of No 4. The north elevation shows a near identical arrangement but is asymmetrical, with a door on the right and an off-centre left extension at ground level. The first floor has varied window placements. The east elevation features a bowed plain gable wall for No 1.
The cottages predominantly have two-leaf timber doors with glazing in the porches. The south elevation mainly features four-pane timber sash and case windows, while No 3 has a tilt and turn plate glass window. The rear windows exhibit varied glazing, including two small, two-pane timber casement windows on the first floor of No 1. The roofs are pitched, covered with modern clay pantiles, while the rear extensions have piended slate roofs. No 1 has a raised curved pantiled skew on the east elevation, and Nos 3 and 4 have raised coped skews on their respective east and west elevations. There are coped, exposed stone gable apex stacks between Nos 1 and 2 and between Nos 3 and 4, along with rendered, coped gable apex stacks on the outer east and west elevations and on the east elevation of No 3, featuring circular clay cans and thackstanes.
Local climate
4 Kirk Cottages, Aberdour receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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