Cults Manse is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 March 1984. 4 related planning applications.

Cults Manse

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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
1 March 1984
Address
Cults Manse, KY15 7TE
OS grid reference
NO 346 098
Coordinates
56.27662, -3.05655
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This is a late 18th and early 19th century manse. It is two storeys high with an attic, and has three bays across the front. The south elevation is faced with droved ashlar, while the rest of the building is constructed of rubble. A central recessed door is present, and the windows are small-paned sash windows, with a 15-pane pattern on the first floor. Other features include an eaves and lintel band, simple skewputts, straight skews, corniced end stacks, and a slate roof. Flat-roofed dormers and a projecting ground floor window to the south were added after a fire around 1927. A piended low rear wing with a wallhead stack is also present.

To the south is a quadrangular walled garden enclosed by rubble-built walls which are linked to the house. A gate with an inscribed lintel is located in the north-west corner. To the north, a single-storey, L-shaped range of outbuildings has a pantiled roof. A group value context is shared with the nearby parish church and dovecote. The artist Sir David Wilkie (1785-1841) was born at Cults Manse.

Local climate

Cults Manse receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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