48 Main Street, Coaltown Of Balgonie is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 March 1996. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

48 Main Street, Coaltown Of Balgonie

WRENN ID
far-footing-fog
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Glenrothes and Mid Fife MP: Richard Baker (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
1 March 1996
Type
Cottage
Address
48 Main Street, Coaltown Of Balgonie, KY7 6HU
OS grid reference
NT 301 997
Coordinates
56.18481, -3.12666
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

48 Main Street in Coaltown of Balgonie is a single-storey, three-bay cottage that dates from the earlier to mid-19th century and has been altered over time. It is part of a terrace to the east and is constructed from rubble with stone cills and an eaves course.

The south elevation, facing Main Street, features a window that has been converted from a door at the center, with additional windows in the flanking bays. The west elevation has a small window on the outer left side.

The cottage has modern windows with plate glass glazing and is topped with red pantiles. It also features coped ashlar stacks with some cans, ashlar coped skews, and thackstanes.

Local climate

48 Main Street, Coaltown Of Balgonie 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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