Shorehead, West Wemyss is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 September 1979. House.
Shorehead, West Wemyss
- WRENN ID
- winding-hammer-magpie
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Glenrothes and Mid Fife MP: Richard Baker (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 10 September 1979
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NT 323 946
- Coordinates
- 56.13992, -3.09003
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Shorehead, located in West Wemyss, is a house built in the mid to later 18th century. It is a rectangular-plan structure with one and two stories and features a timpany gable. The exterior is finished with harl and rubble, and it has stone cills.
The southwest elevation, facing the harbour, is symmetrical and has five evenly spaced windows on each floor, with the timpany gable breaking the eaves at the center.
The northeast elevation is a single-storey section with small windows located in the center and left bays. The northwest elevation also features a single-storey gabled section with a window positioned to the right of center.
The windows are timber sash and case with a 12-pane glazing pattern. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are coped and harled stacks, along with a sawn-off stack on the southeast side. The house has ashlar-coped skews.
Surrounding the property are boundary walls made of brick, featuring both semicircular and flat coping.
Local climate
Shorehead, West Wemyss receives an average of 910 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 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% 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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