Coal Store And Stable Block, Keepers Cottage, Black Heugh, Isle Of May is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 March 1984. Former coal store and stable block.

Coal Store And Stable Block, Keepers Cottage, Black Heugh, Isle Of May

WRENN ID
third-tracery-rook
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
1 March 1984
Type
Former coal store and stable block
OS grid reference
NT 656 991
Coordinates
56.18402, -2.55451
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Coal Store and Stable Block at Keeper's Cottage on the Isle of May was built around 1816 and features a castle-style design that reflects its lighthouse context. Constructed from whin rubble with ashlar dressings and long and short quoins, this single-storey rectangular building has broad, clasping angle projections that are topped with corbelled and castellated parapets. The doors are located in the wider projections and centrally on the long sides, with narrow slits for ventilation. The building has a parapet and a flat roof.

Local climate

Coal Store And Stable Block, Keepers Cottage, Black Heugh, Isle Of May receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% 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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