Mcdouall Stuart Museum, Mcdouall Stuart Place, Dysart is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 March 1998. Museum. 1 related planning application.
Mcdouall Stuart Museum, Mcdouall Stuart Place, Dysart
- WRENN ID
- proud-stronghold-autumn
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1998
- Type
- Museum
- Address
- Mcdouall Stuart Museum, Mcdouall Stuart Place, Dysart, KY1 2TP
- OS grid reference
- NT 303 930
- Coordinates
- 56.12501, -3.1214
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Mcdouall Stuart Museum, located at Mcdouall Stuart Place in Dysart, is an 18th-century, two-storey, three-bay house that has been converted into a museum. The building, which was restored in 1977, features harled walls with stone margins and quoin strips.
On the northeast elevation facing Mcdouall Stuart Place, there are three windows close to the ground and three taller windows on the first floor. A wallhead stack is positioned at the center, and there is a bay to the right that angles around the corner to connect with Nos 1 and 3.
The southwest elevation, which is the rear, has a two-bay layout with a bipartite window to the left of center at ground level. The first floor includes a stair leading to a door on the right and a window on the left.
On the southeast elevation, facing Rectory Lane, there is a window to the right at ground level, a taller window in the center on the first floor, and a smaller window to the right in the gablehead.
The building features a 12-pane glazing pattern in timber sash and case windows, grey slate roofing, and coped ashlar stacks with ashlar-coped skews. The boundary walls are made of coped rubble.
Local climate
Mcdouall Stuart Museum, Mcdouall Stuart Place, Dysart receives an average of 910 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 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% 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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