Ship Cottage, 3 Low Causeway, Torryburn is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 June 1972. House. 2 related planning applications.

Ship Cottage, 3 Low Causeway, Torryburn

WRENN ID
twelfth-latch-crow
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Dunfermline and Dollar MP: Graeme Downie (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
20 June 1972
Type
House
Address
Ship Cottage, 3 Low Causeway, Torryburn, KY12 8LP
OS grid reference
NT 023 860
Coordinates
56.05731, -3.57041
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Ship Cottage is a two-storey house located at 3 Low Causeway in Torryburn. The building features a harled exterior and a slate roof, with a moulded eaves course and scroll skewputts. The classic doorpiece includes a keystone inscribed with "1745 RD 1745." Above the door, there is a panel representing a ship, which is inscribed with "Ship Cottage 1747/IT."

Local climate

Ship Cottage, 3 Low Causeway, Torryburn 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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