House Behind Sandhaven, Culross is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 January 1972. House.

House Behind Sandhaven, Culross

WRENN ID
half-floor-meadow
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Dunfermline and Dollar MP: Graeme Downie (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 January 1972
Type
House
OS grid reference
NS 985 859
Coordinates
56.05563, -3.63056
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The house behind Sandhaven in Culross is a 17th-century, three-storey building with a rectangular plan, constructed from exposed rubble sandstone.

On the west elevation, there is a door located to the far left, with a tall window at mid-level to the right and a small, narrow window at the eaves above. Another door is positioned to the right, accompanied by a similar small, narrow window at the eaves above. Additionally, there is a relieving arch from a now-blocked opening at the ground floor to the far right.

The north elevation features an off-centre first-floor window to the left, a blocked small square second-floor window near the centre, and a blocked larger window to the left.

The east elevation was not visible in 2001.

On the south elevation, a large two-storey opening has been inserted, which is clad in corrugated iron and has timber doors.

Inside, the building has been gutted, revealing an earthen floor and a common rafter roof. There is one 12-pane timber sash and case window on the north side, along with timber panelled doors, although most of the glazing is missing. The pitched roof is covered with clay pantiles and features crowstepped gables and beaked skewputts.

Local climate

House Behind Sandhaven, Culross sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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