West Lodge, Culross Abbey House is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 January 1972. Cottage.

West Lodge, Culross Abbey House

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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Dunfermline and Dollar MP: Graeme Downie (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 January 1972
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
NS 987 863
Coordinates
56.05951, -3.62791
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

West Lodge at Culross Abbey House is possibly an 18th century structure that underwent a 19th century rebuild and incorporates medieval fragments. It is a single-storey, three-bay, T-plan cottage with a modern two-storey rear wing. The building is constructed from sandstone rubble, featuring droved surrounds to its openings, while the rear wing is rendered.

The north elevation, which is the principal front, has a central door with a fanlight and flanking windows. The east elevation includes an off-centre window. The south elevation features a window to the right, an advanced wing to the left, and windows at both the ground and first floors. There is also a door and window on the right return, with advanced earlier stonework to the left of the wing.

On the west elevation, there are medieval fragments, including a blocked chamfered doorway to the left and a small window to the right, with a corbelled stone above and a chamfered pilaster at the far left. The entrance has a two-leaf timber boarded door, and the principal elevation has 12-pane timber sash and case windows, while the rear has replacement windows. The roofs are pitched with crowstepped gables and clay pantiles, featuring a carved foliate finial at the crowsteps and central coupled, coped polygonal ridge stacks.

Surrounding the lodge, a rubble garden wall extends from the west elevation's quoins to enclose the front and rear gardens. The north wall curves to the east and includes a pair of square-plan gatepiers topped with conical coping stones. The wall continues eastward, terminating with a tall, coped square-plan pier, which is mirrored on the north side with an identical pier and wall.

Local climate

West Lodge, Culross Abbey House 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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