Free Church School, Backdykes, Anstruther Easter is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 May 1972.

Free Church School, Backdykes, Anstruther Easter

WRENN ID
still-stone-laurel
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
9 May 1972
OS grid reference
NO 568 036
Coordinates
56.2235, -2.69805
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Free Church Schoolhouse in Backdykes, Anstruther Easter, was built in 1846 as a Free Church School. It is a former house that has been converted into offices. The building is two stories tall with three windows, constructed from rubble with margins, and has a slated roof. The former school section is a tall single storey made of rubble with margins and features two parallel roofs, one of which is pantiled while the back of the roof has modern tiles added in 1971. The west elevation has three windows, the east elevation has two windows, and the original glazing is still intact. There is also a south porch.

Local climate

Free Church School, Backdykes, Anstruther Easter receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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