The Cottage, West Green, Culross is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 July 1973. Cottage. 7 related planning applications.

The Cottage, West Green, Culross

WRENN ID
pale-wattle-umber
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Dunfermline and Dollar MP: Graeme Downie (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
19 July 1973
Type
Cottage
Address
The Cottage, West Green, Culross, KY12 8JH
OS grid reference
NS 984 859
Coordinates
56.05525, -3.63151
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Cottage, located at West Green in Culross, is an 18th-century single-storey cottage with a nearly square plan and two bays. It features stugged sandstone with ashlar surrounds for the windows and doors.

On the east elevation, there is a central door with a window to the right that was formerly a door. A tall rubble wall from the adjacent Weaver's Cottage extends from the right side. The south elevation has two windows, and the west elevation also has two windows. The north elevation is attached to Weaver's Cottage.

The cottage has replacement four-pane timber windows, with top-hung upper panes and fixed lower panes, along with a replacement glazed door. It has a shallow pyramidal roof covered with clay pantiles, a wallhead stack on the west side with a polygonal chimney, and a cast-iron hopper on the northeast side.

Inside, the cottage has been modernised.

Additionally, there are small enclosed garden walls to the south of Honeysuckle Cottage and the road, constructed from rubble and stugged sandstone. The wall is lower to the north and features a central opening in the north wall.

Local climate

The Cottage, 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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