Ailie House, Low Causeway, Culross is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 January 1972. House. 3 related planning applications.
Ailie House, Low Causeway, Culross
- WRENN ID
- burning-doorway-moss
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Dunfermline and Dollar MP: Graeme Downie (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1972
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ailie House, Low Causeway, Culross, KY12 8HN
- OS grid reference
- NS 986 858
- Coordinates
- 56.05491, -3.62817
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Ailie House is an 18th-century, two-storey, three-bay house located on Low Causeway in Culross. The building features exposed ashlar margins, an eaves course, and a rendered finish.
The north elevation is symmetrical, with a central replacement two-leaf door flanked by windows, and three first-floor windows centered above. The east elevation is attached to The Hollies. The south elevation is partially visible and includes a first-floor window, along with four additions to the rear: a pitched roof structure on the far left, a single-storey flat-roof extension to the right of it, and two two-storey extensions further right. There are ground and first-floor windows on the right side of the south elevation.
The front of the house has 12-pane timber sash and case windows, while the rear features modern fenestration. The roof is steeply pitched and swept, covered with clay pantiles. The west side has a raised wallhead, a corniced gable apex, and the east side has a coped gable apex with a polygonal can. There is a pitched pantile roof on the west rear outshot, and the other extensions have modern roofing materials.
The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 2001.
Local climate
Ailie House, Low Causeway, Culross sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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 — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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