The Carshed Shop, Main Road, East Wemyss is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 March 1999. Shop.

The Carshed Shop, Main Road, East Wemyss

WRENN ID
sheer-cupola-sedge
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Glenrothes and Mid Fife MP: Richard Baker (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
17 March 1999
Type
Shop
OS grid reference
NT 336 966
Coordinates
56.15779, -3.06964
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Carshed Shop, located on Main Road in East Wemyss, is an early 20th-century single-storey shop with a piend roof. It features a full-width tiled porch supported by rustic timber piers and is harled with stone margins.

On the northwest elevation, there is a door positioned to the left of the center, accompanied by a canted window to the outer left. To the right, there is a window in a bay, and another door is located further to the outer right.

Both the northeast and southwest elevations have a window, although the window on the northeast side is blocked. The shop has plate glass glazing in timber sash and case windows, and the roof is covered with pantiles, complemented by a slate easing course at the eaves.

Local climate

The Carshed Shop, Main Road, East Wemyss receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% 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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