Briar Cottages, The Wynd, Kingsbarns is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 November 1971. 4 related planning applications.

Briar Cottages, The Wynd, Kingsbarns

WRENN ID
upper-thatch-oak
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
23 November 1971
Address
Briar Cottages, The Wynd, Kingsbarns, KY16 8SP
OS grid reference
NO 593 122
Coordinates
56.30058, -2.65781
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Briar Cottages are a pair of 18th-century cottages located on The Wynd in Kingsbarns. They are single-storey structures, each featuring two windows and a central doorway. The window arrangement is irregular. The cottages are harled (roughcast) in appearance and have pantile roofs with slate skirting. The buildings have been altered in later centuries.

Local climate

Briar Cottages, The Wynd, Kingsbarns receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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