40 Main Street, West Wemyss is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 December 1972.

40 Main Street, West Wemyss

WRENN ID
seventh-lead-root
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Glenrothes and Mid Fife MP: Richard Baker (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
11 December 1972
OS grid reference
NT 326 946
Coordinates
56.13997, -3.08535
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

38 Main Street in West Wemyss is a late 18th century, two-storey, L-plan former skipper's house, part of an irregular terrace, featuring a crowstepped gable at the rear. The building is harled with an eaves course.

On the northwest elevation facing Main Street, there is a window in the center bay, with additional windows immediately to the left and on the outer right, and three windows on the first floor. The southeast elevation, which faces the shore, has a prominent projecting wing to the right of center that includes a full-height canted window and a crowstepped gable.

The windows on the Main Street side are currently blinded for protection. The roof is pantiled, and there are coped harled stacks and ashlar-coped skews.

Local climate

40 Main Street, 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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