Undercliffe, West Green, Culross is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 January 1972. House. 2 related planning applications.
Undercliffe, West Green, Culross
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-arch-quill
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Dunfermline and Dollar MP: Graeme Downie (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1972
- Type
- House
- Address
- Undercliffe, West Green, Culross, KY12 8JH
- OS grid reference
- NS 984 859
- Coordinates
- 56.05546, -3.63233
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Undercliffe is an 18th-century L-plan house located in West Green, Culross, with later alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. The house is two stories high with an attic and features three bays. Its exterior is finished in pebble-dash, with ashlar surrounds around the windows and door, as well as an ashlar eaves course.
On the south elevation, the main entrance is situated to the far right, featuring a pedimented and pilastered doorpiece with a flanking light. To the left, there is a window, and a two-story fenestration bay with canted bay windows that have chamfered surrounds. Above the door, a pedimented window is centered on the first floor. A single-story garage, added in the 20th century, is attached to the west elevation.
The west elevation has a plain gable wall, with the later garage abutting the garden wall. The north elevation includes a two-story wing on the left and a 20th-century lean-to. The east elevation is attached to another building known as Caldervale.
The windows are plate glass timber sash and case, with 20th-century roof lights added to the rear. The house features a timber panelled door and a pitched slate roof with skewputts. The gable apex stacks are coped, with polygonal cans, and there is a coped gable apex stack on the rear two-story wing. The bay window has a piended slate roof, while the modern north room has an asphalt lean-to roof.
Inside, a step leads into a small inner hall with a glazed panel door. The ground floor lobby is adorned with Minton tiles. A dogleg staircase features a decorative timber newel post and cast-iron balusters, along with a timber handrail. The first-floor hall has an egg and dart cornice, and an arch to the east of the stairs leads to the attic. There is a blocked door to the adjacent house, Caldervale, located in a cupboard beside the arch. A glazed, two-leaf door, which was the former rear door, leads into a modern rear room on the first floor.
The garden is enclosed by tall rubble walls on three sides, with a low stugged wall and ashlar coping at the front. This wall has a terminating gatepost to the west and a chamfered ashlar square-plan pier with a conical coping stone. A cast-iron gate is present, although the railings on the wall are now missing as of 2001.
Local climate
Undercliffe, West Green, 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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- Radon risk assessment
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