Knox's Cottage, South Road, Cupar is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 February 1972. Cottages. 2 related planning applications.
Knox's Cottage, South Road, Cupar
- WRENN ID
- winter-transept-barley
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 1 February 1972
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Knox's Cottage, South Road, Cupar, KY15 5JH
- OS grid reference
- NO 375 136
- Coordinates
- 56.31117, -3.01109
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Knox's Cottage, located on South Road in Cupar, was built between 1835 and 1836. It features a symmetrical design with a single storey and an attic. The building is constructed from ashlar stone at the center and ends, connected by low links that have three semi-elliptical arches. The roofs are jerkinhead style, covered with slate, and include central groups of shafted chimneys. The central section has a two-storey gable with an arched recess on the ground floor and an oriel window on the first floor.
Local climate
Knox's Cottage, South Road, Cupar receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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