West End Cottage, 1 Main Street, Low Valleyfield is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 June 1972. Cottage. 6 related planning applications.
West End Cottage, 1 Main Street, Low Valleyfield
- WRENN ID
- burning-passage-equinox
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Dunfermline and Dollar MP: Graeme Downie (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 June 1972
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- West End Cottage, 1 Main Street, Low Valleyfield, KY12 8TF
- OS grid reference
- NS 994 861
- Coordinates
- 56.0577, -3.61566
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
West End Cottage is a traditional two and one-and-a-half storey domestic building with a rectangular plan, likely dating to around the mid-18th century, though it may be older. Originally, it comprised two separate dwellings, which were converted into a single house before 1814. The building is made of local sandstone and was previously rendered. The roof height has been raised, and the pantiled roof and windows are later replacements designed in a traditional style. The original configuration of the two earliest dwellings, which were one-and-a-half storeys, along with their window arrangements, are now visible due to the absence of render. The gables feature crowstepped designs, and there are beaked skewputts; the one on the east gable is located within the wallhead at the former roof line.
The house is prominently situated near a road junction, with rubble boundary walls enclosing a triangular-plan site.
Local climate
West End Cottage, 1 Main Street, Low Valleyfield sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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