Forth Cottage, Sandilands, Limekilns is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 December 1979. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Forth Cottage, Sandilands, Limekilns
- WRENN ID
- haunted-garret-bone
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Dunfermline and Dollar MP: Graeme Downie (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 19 December 1979
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Forth Cottage, Sandilands, Limekilns, KY11 3JD
- OS grid reference
- NT 078 833
- Coordinates
- 56.03385, -3.47974
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Forth Cottage is an 18th-century single-storey, three-bay cottage located in Sandilands, Limekilns. The exterior is harled with painted stone surrounds around the openings.
On the east elevation, there is a central replacement glazed door flanked by windows, with a small fixed light to the right of the door. The south elevation features a plain gable, where the raggles of a removed adjacent building are visible. The west elevation was not seen during the last inspection in 2000. The north elevation is attached to 1 Brucehaven Road.
The cottage has 2-pane timber sash and case windows, with openings that extend to the eaves level. The pitched roof is covered with modern pantiles, and there is a raised wallhead on the south gable with a brick apex chimney stack. The rear right-hand section of the roof is also raised. The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 2000.
Local climate
Forth Cottage, Sandilands, Limekilns receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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