Outhouse, West End, Collessie is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 June 1978. Washhouse.

Outhouse, West End, Collessie

WRENN ID
keen-cobble-torch
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 June 1978
Type
Washhouse
OS grid reference
NO 284 131
Coordinates
56.30549, -3.15721
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This 18th-century outhouse in Collessie is constructed from rubble and features a single-storey design with a hipped pantiled roof that slopes down towards the eaves. It has a wooden lintel above a boarded door. The rubble wall extends from a lean-to on the left to the ashlar quoins of a former village shop on the right.

Local climate

Outhouse, West End, Collessie receives an average of 900 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 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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