Gardens Cottage, Dalgety Bay is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 February 1988. Cottage.

Gardens Cottage, Dalgety Bay

WRENN ID
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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 February 1988
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
NT 154 834
Coordinates
56.03681, -3.35787
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Gardens Cottage in Dalgety Bay is an earlier to mid-19th century building that was originally constructed as a gardener's cottage for Donibristle House. This single-storey cottage features a central door and three bays, with broad eaves and a piend roof covered in slate. At the center of the roof, there is an apex stack with a pair of corniced octagonal flues. A full-height rear wing has been added, which is also piended and has an identical stack.

The cottage is built from squared rubble with ashlar dressings, and it includes chamfered reveals and painted cills that are supported by block corbels on the original house. There is a glazed porch on a stone base, which may date from the same period as the rear wing. The windows are small-paned sash windows.

Local climate

Gardens Cottage, Dalgety Bay receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% 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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