Beadle's Cottage, Kemback is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 June 1979. 1 related planning application.
Beadle's Cottage, Kemback
- WRENN ID
- solemn-baluster-bittern
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 June 1979
- Address
- Beadle's Cottage, Kemback, KY15 5TS
- OS grid reference
- NO 417 149
- Coordinates
- 56.32346, -2.94294
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Beadle’s Cottage is a mid-18th century, single-storey, three-bay building. It is constructed of painted rubble, with gabled ends featuring brick end stacks and a pantiled roof. The central doorway is topped by a lintel carved with a projecting key-block. A window on the right side has a marriage lintel dated 1731. Window and door surrounds are chamfered. A smaller, single-storey extension with one window projects to the west. A ruinous rubble extension is located to the south.
Local climate
Beadle's Cottage, Kemback receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.