Strad Cottage, Collessie is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 June 1978. Cottage, gates.

Strad Cottage, Collessie

WRENN ID
western-groin-lark
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 June 1978
Type
Cottage, gates
OS grid reference
NO 286 132
Coordinates
56.30614, -3.15405
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Strad Cottage, built in 1839, is a single-storey building with a dormerless attic and features three windows. The cottage has an advanced centre gabled section and is constructed from whin rubble with freestone dressings that have painted margins and block dripmoulds. The roof is slated with an eaves course. There is a single-storey extension on the right side that extends to the rear.

Local climate

Strad Cottage, Collessie receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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