Ye Old Stone Cottage, Back Street, Culross is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 January 1972. House.
Ye Old Stone Cottage, Back Street, Culross
- WRENN ID
- white-tallow-brook
- 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 987 859
- Coordinates
- 56.05553, -3.62729
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Ye Old Stone Cottage is an 18th-century, two-storey, three-bay house with a rectangular plan. It features a 20th-century wing to the west and at the rear. The openings have ashlar margins and the exterior is harled.
On the south elevation, there is a central door flanked by ground floor windows. Above, a small central window is flanked by windows that hug the eaves. To the left, there is a single-storey wing with a central window.
The west elevation has two windows belonging to the later wing, while the north elevation includes a lean-to wing attached to the rear, featuring two windows on the left and glazed doors on the right, as well as a glazed door to the west wing.
The east elevation presents a plain gable wall. The house predominantly has 8-pane timber sash and case windows, with enlarged windows on the right side of the principal elevation. The front door is a two-leaf timber boarded design. The roof is pitched, covered with clay pantiles and has a slate easing course, with coped gable apex stacks. There is a rear rooflight and a slated lean-to roof on the rear wing.
Inside, a central rear first-floor window is exposed, although it is blocked by the later northern extension. The original exterior walls are approximately three feet thick and are visible where the original house meets the later lean-to.
Local climate
Ye Old Stone Cottage, Back Street, 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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