The Tanner's House, 4 Tanhouse Brae, Culross is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 January 1972.

The Tanner's House, 4 Tanhouse Brae, Culross

WRENN ID
long-clay-thyme
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Dunfermline and Dollar MP: Graeme Downie (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 January 1972
OS grid reference
NS 987 859
Coordinates
56.05587, -3.62811
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

3 Tanhouse Brae is a 17th to 18th century, two-storey, three-bay house that underwent refurbishment in 1952 by W Schomburg Scott. The exterior is harled with a base course and features exposed stone surrounds around the windows and doors.

On the southeast elevation, there is a central ground floor door located beneath a forestair, with a first-floor entrance door directly above it. The elevation includes single windows flanking both the ground and first floors. The forestair, which is accessed from the right, has a chamfered stone support that is partially renewed and covers part of the right ground floor window. A plaque from the National Trust for Scotland is positioned to the right of the door.

The southwest elevation is attached to 2 Tanhouse Brae, while the northwest elevation features a first-floor window to the right, with a rear wing on the left that includes a window and door in the right return and another window in the rear gable wall. The northeast elevation is attached to 4 Tanhouse Brae.

The windows throughout the building are 12-pane timber sash and case, and there are timber boarded two-leaf doors. The roof is pitched and covered with clay pantiles, featuring crowsteps on the northeast side. There is an apex stack on the northeast and a pitched rear wing with a clay pantile roof and a coped gable apex stack.

The interior has been partially seen as of 2001, with a flagstone floor in the central ground floor storeroom.

Local climate

The Tanner's House, 4 Tanhouse Brae, 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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