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

Williamton House, Low Causeway, Culross

WRENN ID
quartered-threshold-hazel
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 988 859
Coordinates
56.05552, -3.62639
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Williamton House, located on Low Causeway in Culross, is an 18th-century, likely late 18th-century, three-storey, three-bay house with wings to the west and north. There is a modern two-storey extension at the rear, added in the later 20th century. The house features painted ashlar margins and vertical arrises, with white harling.

The south elevation, which is the principal front, has an off-centre door with the remains of a former pitched porch recently removed. There are two windows flanking the door, three evenly spaced first-floor windows, and three second-floor windows located at the eaves, centered above the first-floor windows. To the left, there is a single-storey wing, with a window to the right that was formerly a door, and a window to the left with chamfered surrounds.

On the west elevation, there is a single-storey wing with an inserted door to the left and a small round-headed central attic window. The rear range has a modern frontage to the right, while a small two-storey bothy is located to the left, featuring a door to the right and a window to the left, along with a first-floor window to the left. There is also a single-storey section to the left with a door and a window. Attached to the left is a later L-plan range from the 20th century, which has replacement openings.

The north elevation includes a single-storey wing to the west with a blocked door to the left and a central window. The modern two-storey extension at the rear has a window to the right and a door to the left, along with two first-floor windows.

The east elevation features a first-floor window to the left and a second-floor window to the right. The rear range shows exposed rubble to the right, with three small ground-floor windows in the first section. A section to the far right is partially visible and has a small window.

The house predominantly has 12-pane timber sash and case windows. The decorative front door has a glazed panel and a moulded surround, with a central rose and a moulded surround below, a pattern that is repeated inside. The main house has a pitched slate roof with raised, smooth skews, coped gable apex stacks, and circular cans. There is a later wallhead stack to the northeast of the house with a polygonal can. The west wing also has a pitched slate roof with a coped gable apex stack. The modern rear extension has a lean-to roof, while the rear wings feature pitched roofs with clay pantiles and a coped stack on the north gable of the bothy.

Inside, only the interior of the bothy was observed, which includes timber beams and two fireplaces in the north gable wall that share one lintel. A low rubble wall encloses the front garden, which has a central gate.

Local climate

Williamton House, Low Causeway, 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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