Coutter Cottage, 7 Links Road, Earlsferry is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 January 1980. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Coutter Cottage, 7 Links Road, Earlsferry

WRENN ID
still-balcony-onyx
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
8 January 1980
Type
Cottage
Address
Coutter Cottage, 7 Links Road, Earlsferry, KY9 1AW
OS grid reference
NT 482 999
Coordinates
56.18969, -2.83479
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Coutter Cottage, located at 7 Links Road in Earlsferry, is an earlier 19th century building that has been altered. It is two stories tall and constructed from whin rubble, featuring stugged ashlar dressings and margins. The front has two windows, with a modern single-storey porch made of rubble and ashlar on the right side. This porch includes a panelled door, a neo-Georgian fanlight, and a wooden bracketed cornice. There are relieving arches over the ground floor windows, which are fitted with 15-pane sash windows. The roof is slated, with straight skews and harled brick end stacks.

Local climate

Coutter Cottage, 7 Links Road, Earlsferry 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 greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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