73 Main Street, Aberdour is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 March 2004. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

73 Main Street, Aberdour

WRENN ID
narrow-chalk-honey
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
24 March 2004
Type
Cottage
Address
73 Main Street, Aberdour, KY3 0UQ
OS grid reference
NT 194 857
Coordinates
56.05767, -3.29474
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

73 Main Street in Aberdour is a late 19th-century single-storey and attic, three-bay end of terrace cottage featuring classical detailing. The exterior is constructed with stugged ashlar walls and polished ashlar dressings, including a base course and rusticated long and short quoins.

The south elevation is asymmetrical, with a central entrance door framed by a doorpiece. This is flanked by fluted engaged Doric columns that rise to a corniced overdoor, which features fluted consoles and a fanlight topped by a scroll-ended pediment. To the left, there are tripartite windows slightly advanced, divided by fluted engaged Doric columns that rise to a stylised entablature. On the right side, a four-light canted window is similarly framed by fluted engaged Doric columns and a stylised entablature, topped with a continuous Vitruvian scroll motif.

The west elevation is adjoined to 71 Main Street, while the east elevation is a plain rendered gable.

The entrance features a four-panel timber door with central vertical beading. The windows are two-pane timber sash and case types with horns. The south elevation has gabled timber dormers with bargeboards in each bay, with the left dormer being bipartite and the right being stepped tripartite. These dormers also have two-pane timber sash and case windows, framed by half-round mouldings with architrave-blocks at the corners. The roof is a grey slate Mansard style, with stugged ashlar coped gable stacks and polygonal cans.

The boundary wall is rendered with an ashlar coping along the road, featuring an entrance gate and steps at the centre. To the east, the wall returns as a swept random rubble structure.

Local climate

73 Main Street, Aberdour receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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