The Cottage, 2 William Street, Tayport is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 2 May 1973. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
The Cottage, 2 William Street, Tayport
- WRENN ID
- still-foundation-ash
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 2 May 1973
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- NO 458 286
- Coordinates
- 56.44716, -2.88037
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Cottage at 2 William Street in Tayport is a Regency building dating from 1810. It is a single-storey structure with an attic, featuring a central block that has a double bowed shape and a wide-eaved piend roof. The roof includes twin canted dormers, and there is a lead flat cut into the center of the roof. On either side of the central block, there are single-storey wings that each have one window and also feature piended roofs. The building is topped with a slated roof.
Local climate
The Cottage, 2 William Street, Tayport 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 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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