The Pink House, Home Farm, Wemyss Castle is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 2 April 2003. Cottage.

The Pink House, Home Farm, Wemyss Castle

WRENN ID
haunted-pavement-scarlet
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Glenrothes and Mid Fife MP: Richard Baker (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
2 April 2003
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
NT 327 953
Coordinates
56.14572, -3.08389
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Pink House at Home Farm, Wemyss Castle, dates from around 1820 and is a tall single-storey and attic, two-bay cottage designed in an L-plan. It features elements of cottage orne style, including timber-mullioned leaded windows and steeply-pitched jerkin-headed gables, and is harled.

The southeast elevation is symmetrical, with slightly advanced bays on either side of the center. Each bay has a four-light window at ground level and a three-light oriel window above, supported by decorative timber brackets that abut the jerkin-headed roof. A tall ridge stack is positioned at the center.

On the northeast elevation, there is an advanced gable to the left with a three-light window at ground level, and a door on the return to the right, which has two small windows in the lower slate-hung gable. There is also another door in a lower recessed bay to the right.

The southwest elevation features a door to the outer left of the gabled bay on the right, with a window in the lower bay to the left.

The cottage has multi-pane diamond-pattern leaded glazing in its casement windows and is roofed with grey slates. The coped harled stack has vertically-banded decoration near the cope, while the eaves are deeply overhanging with plain bargeboarding.

Local climate

The Pink House, Home Farm, Wemyss Castle 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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