Farm Cottages, Riggs is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 March 1984.

Farm Cottages, Riggs

WRENN ID
ghost-courtyard-tallow
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
1 March 1984
OS grid reference
NO 290 077
Coordinates
56.25669, -3.14607
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Riggs is an earlier 19th-century farmhouse that stands two stories tall and features three bays. The building is constructed of ashlar stone and has a central recessed door adorned with a painted, pilastered doorpiece. It includes 12-pane sash windows and an eaves band. The farmhouse has corniced stacks at each end and is topped with a slate roof. It is enclosed by a low ashlar garden wall with spearhead railings, and the square gatepiers are capped with pyramidal tops.

To the east of the farmhouse is an earlier 19th-century single-storey cottage with five bays, made of snecked and stugged ashlar. This cottage has a central door on the east elevation, with modern glazing in the left bays and 12-pane glazing in the right bays. It features a single central stack and a steep-pitched piended slate roof.

Local climate

Farm Cottages, Riggs receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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