40 Station Road, Thornton is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 March 1996. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
40 Station Road, Thornton
- WRENN ID
- watchful-vestry-barley
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Glenrothes and Mid Fife MP: Richard Baker (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1996
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 40 Station Road, Thornton, KY1 4AX
- OS grid reference
- NT 290 977
- Coordinates
- 56.16712, -3.1435
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
40 Station Road in Thornton is a late 19th century single-storey cottage with three bays and a pedimented roof. The exterior is harled with stone cills, featuring a base course and a mutulated cornice. It has a basket-arched doorcase and segmental-headed windows, with stop-chamfered arrises and stone mullions.
The south elevation is symmetrical, featuring a modern timber door with a plate glass fanlight at the center, set within a canopied doorcase adorned with volute brackets and scrollwork moulding beneath a gablehead that breaks the eaves. This gablehead is topped with a small decorative cross.
The windows are modern with plate glass glazing, and the roof is covered with grey slates. The cottage has coped and mutulated, stop-chamfered harled stacks, with the eastern stack featuring a can. The skews are sawtooth coped ashlar.
The boundary wall is harled and battlemented, with lozenge detail ashlar coping.
Local climate
40 Station Road, Thornton 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- 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
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