Dunearn House, Dunearn is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 September 1979. Cottage.

Dunearn House, Dunearn

WRENN ID
gaunt-hall-wagtail
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
10 September 1979
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
NT 213 871
Coordinates
56.07095, -3.26445
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Dunearn House is an early 19th-century single-storey cottage with an attic, featuring a wide three-bay T-plan and a piend roof. The design includes elements reminiscent of the cottage orne style, with a slated roof that sweeps over curved dormer windows that break the eaves, and a bowed wall at the end of the T-projection. The exterior is harled with painted stone margins, basket-arched windows, and vestigial hoodmoulds.

On the south elevation, which serves as the entrance, the layout is symmetrical. A glazed tripartite door is centrally located within a piended porch addition, flanked by bipartite windows. There is a large rooflight at the center, with tripartite dormer windows on either side.

The north elevation features a bowed wall with two windows, and a bipartite window is set in a recessed wall to the left. The east elevation has two windows in a recessed wall. The west elevation includes a bipartite window in an advanced wall to the outer right, a small catslide-roofed projection with a window in the re-entrant to the left, and a recessed T-arm with a door to the outer left, along with windows to the right and left of the center.

The windows are a mix of 4-pane and plate glass in sash and case styles, with casement windows in the dormers. The roof is covered with grey slates, graded on a circular section, and features coped ashlar stacks with cans and thackstanes.

Surrounding the property are extensive coped random rubble boundary walls, complemented by pyramid-coped square gatepiers made of rusticated ashlar blocks.

Local climate

Dunearn House, Dunearn receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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