Thistle Cottage, Low Causeway, Culross is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 July 1973.

Thistle Cottage, Low Causeway, Culross

WRENN ID
silver-chapel-ivory
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Dunfermline and Dollar MP: Graeme Downie (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
19 July 1973
OS grid reference
NS 987 858
Coordinates
56.05506, -3.62785
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Aralia Cottage is an early to mid-19th century L-plan cottage with one and a half storeys, constructed from stugged ashlar. It features chamfered surrounds for the windows and doors, as well as base and eaves courses.

On the north elevation, there is an advanced two-bay gable to the left, with a door on the left side and a two-pane fanlight above it. A window is located to the right, and there is a central window on the first floor. To the right, a three-bay section is set back, which includes a central door flanked by windows.

The east and south elevations were not visible in 2001. On the west elevation, there is a first-floor window to the left, and the cottage is adjoined to The Hollies on the right.

The cottage predominantly features 12-pane timber sash and case windows and timber panelled doors. The roof is pitched with slate on the north and west sides, and pantiles on the rear and east. It has raised skews, a thistle finial on the north gable, a gable apex stack on the west gable, a corniced ridge stack on the three-bay section, and polygonal chimney cans.

The interior was not seen in 2001.

Local climate

Thistle Cottage, 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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