3 Burn's Wynd, West Wemyss is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 December 1972. Electricity sub-station.
3 Burn's Wynd, West Wemyss
- WRENN ID
- tenth-footing-solstice
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Glenrothes and Mid Fife MP: Richard Baker (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 11 December 1972
- Type
- Electricity sub-station
- OS grid reference
- NT 326 946
- Coordinates
- 56.14018, -3.08509
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
3 Burn's Wynd in West Wemyss is an 18th-century building that may include some earlier materials. It has been heavily restored and converted into an electricity sub-station. This small, two-storey former house has a gable facing the street and features harl with stone margins and quoins.
On the northeast elevation, which faces Burn's Wynd, there is a broad timber door in the center at ground level, with a window in the bay to the left and three windows on the first floor.
The northwest elevation, which faces Main Street, has a projecting gabled section with windows to the left of center on both floors, and a small window to the right at ground level. There is a return to the right with a bipartite window on the first floor.
All windows are blinded. The building has Courtrai tiles, with coped harled stacks and ashlar-coped skews.
Local climate
3 Burn's Wynd, West Wemyss 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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