West Wemyss Manse is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 March 1999. Manse. 2 related planning applications.
West Wemyss Manse
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-bailey-rowan
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Glenrothes and Mid Fife MP: Richard Baker (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 March 1999
- Type
- Manse
- Address
- West Wemyss Manse, KY1 4SU
- OS grid reference
- NT 325 947
- Coordinates
- 56.14031, -3.08765
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
West Wemyss Manse is a former manse built in 1895 by Alexander Tod, possibly incorporating earlier elements, and features a staircase designed by Robert S Lorimer. This two-storey, three-bay building is L-shaped with crowstepped gables and a round stair tower. It is constructed of red sandstone rubble, accented with raised and stugged ashlar margins and quoin strips, and has a deep base course on the south side. The windows are made with stone mullions.
On the south elevation, there is a broad gable that projects to the right of the center, featuring a tripartite window on the ground floor and a bipartite window on the first floor, along with an additional window on the return to the left. The left side has recessed bays with windows on both floors, and the first-floor windows break the eaves into pedimented dormerheads.
The east elevation, which serves as the entrance, has a central bay with a projecting, flat-roofed round stair tower. Below the tower is a deep-set panelled timber door, accompanied by a window to the southwest and a window on each floor to the northeast. There are additional windows in the bays to the right and left of the center.
The west elevation features a gabled design with windows on the outer right and left at the ground floor, and another window on the outer right at the first floor.
The north elevation has been altered and is asymmetrical, showcasing a variety of elements including a broad gable to the left of center and two windows that break the eaves into pedimented dormerheads on the right.
The windows throughout the building predominantly feature 8- and 12-pane glazing patterns in timber sash and case style, except for the ground floor on the north side, which has plate glass glazing in top-opening timber windows. The roof is covered with pantiles, and there are coped harled stacks with cans, as well as ashlar-coped skews with moulded skewputts.
The boundary walls surrounding the property are made of semicircular-coped rubble.
Local climate
West Wemyss Manse receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% 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 — 2 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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