Catherine Bank, 5 Sands Place, Aberdour is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 December 1979. House. 1 related planning application.
Catherine Bank, 5 Sands Place, Aberdour
- WRENN ID
- pitched-basalt-vetch
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 19 December 1979
- Type
- House
- Address
- Catherine Bank, 5 Sands Place, Aberdour, KY3 0SZ
- OS grid reference
- NT 187 851
- Coordinates
- 56.05266, -3.30595
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Catherine Bank, located at 5 Sands Place in Aberdour, is a 17th century house that has undergone later alterations. It is a two-storey, three-bay structure with a rectangular plan and features rendered stone with painted margins around the openings.
The north elevation, which is the principal facade, has a symmetrical arrangement with a central door that includes a letterbox fanlight, flanked by windows. The first-floor windows are positioned directly above the ground floor openings. On the west elevation, there is a single first-floor window to the left. The south elevation has modern inserted windows. The east elevation is attached to 4 Sands Place.
The house has a replacement six-panelled timber door and replacement 12-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is pitched and covered with concrete interlocking tiles, featuring a raised skew and a beaked skewput on the northwest elevation. The gable apex stacks are coped, with the west side rendered and the east side in stone, both having circular cans.
Inside, there is a central hall with a stone winder stair leading to the first floor, and cornicing is present in the principal rooms.
Local climate
Catherine Bank, 5 Sands Place, Aberdour receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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