Little Sandhaven, 6 Back Street, Culross is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 January 1972. L-plan house. 1 related planning application.
Little Sandhaven, 6 Back Street, Culross
- WRENN ID
- late-lancet-linden
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Dunfermline and Dollar MP: Graeme Downie (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1972
- Type
- L-plan house
- Address
- Little Sandhaven, 6 Back Street, Culross, KY12 8HP
- OS grid reference
- NS 987 859
- Coordinates
- 56.05546, -3.62769
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Little Sandhaven is an 18th-century, 2-storey, 3-bay house with an L-plan layout. It features a later rear wing and a late 20th-century wing to the east. The exterior has ashlar surrounds to the openings and is harled.
On the south elevation, there is a central door on both the ground and first floors, with a replacement forestair on the left. Flanking the door are windows on both floors. To the right, there is a wing with two ground floor windows and garage doors at the far right.
The west elevation is attached to the Stephen Memorial Hall.
The north elevation has a central modern porch with a door to the right and a window to the left, along with a window in the left return. There is a ground floor window to the left and two first floor windows. The wing on the right is advanced, featuring a first floor window. There are ground and first floor windows in the left return of this wing. The far left wing is slightly advanced and has two ground floor windows to the right, large doors to the left, and two first floor dormer windows in a raised roof.
The east elevation presents a plain gable wall.
The building predominantly features 12-pane timber sash and case windows, with replacement two-leaf timber boarded doors. The roofs are pitched, covered with clay pantiles and slate easing courses. The house has crowstepped gables and gable apex stacks, while the rear wing has a coped apex stack. The eastern wing has a centrally raised roof with tile-hung cheeks on the north elevation and a rooflight.
Inside, there is a stone chimney breast that is advanced in the west rooms, and the interior has been modernized.
To the rear of the house, a low circular rubble wall encloses a well.
Local climate
Little Sandhaven, 6 Back Street, Culross 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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