West Wemyss Toll, Coaltown Of Wemyss is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 March 1999. Tollhouse.
West Wemyss Toll, Coaltown Of Wemyss
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-rood-grain
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Glenrothes and Mid Fife MP: Richard Baker (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 March 1999
- Type
- Tollhouse
- OS grid reference
- NT 318 954
- Coordinates
- 56.1472, -3.098
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
West Wemyss Toll is an early 19th-century tollhouse that was rebuilt in 1906 and has undergone later alterations. It is a single-storey structure with a hexagonal plan, featuring crowsteps and a pantiled roof, with harl and painted margins.
On the north elevation, there is a small crowstepped porch that leads to a boarded timber door. The northeast and northwest elevations each have a single bay with a window. The east elevation has two windows, with the left window being smaller. The west elevation also has two windows.
The south elevation has been altered, featuring a flat-roofed corrugated extension projecting to the left and a harled extension to the right, with modern windows. The windows throughout the building are timber sash and case, with 6- and 12-pane glazing patterns. The polygonal roof is covered with clay pantiles, which have a slate easing course and an eaves overhang. The roof culminates in a coped square apex stack with cans.
Local climate
West Wemyss Toll, Coaltown Of 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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