Old Shoemaker's House, Tanhouse Brae, Culross is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 January 1972. House.
Old Shoemaker's House, Tanhouse Brae, Culross
- WRENN ID
- first-glass-equinox
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Dunfermline and Dollar MP: Graeme Downie (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1972
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NS 987 859
- Coordinates
- 56.05594, -3.62783
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Old Shoemaker's House, located on Tanhouse Brae in Culross, dates back to 1669. This single-storey, four-bay house features a harled exterior with stone surrounds, a cavetto eaves course, and a decorative doorpiece.
On the northwest elevation, the central door is framed by a moulded, blocked, lugged stone door surround with a keystone. Steps lead up to the door, with a bridge step that overlaps an open street drain. Flanking the door are single windows that sit close to the eaves. To the right of the central door is a laigh door, which has a carved shield in the lintel inscribed with 'HH BD 1669'.
The northeast elevation is attached to Forth View, while the southeast elevation was not visible in 2001. The southwest elevation is attached to 5 Tanhouse Brae.
The house features 12-pane timber sash and case windows and a replacement timber door. The pitched roof is covered with slate laid in diminishing courses, and the southwest gable has crowstepped detailing, a curved skewputt, and renewed crowsteps. Gable apex stacks are present as well. The interior was not seen in 2001.
Local climate
Old Shoemaker's House, Tanhouse Brae, 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings
Nearby listed buildings
- 5 Tanhouse Brae, Culross
- Forth View, Tanhouse Brae, Culross
- The Tanner's House, 4 Tanhouse Brae, Culross
- The Tanner's House, 4 Tanhouse Brae, Culross
- Preston View, Tanhouse Brae, Culross
- Tanbrae House, Tanhouse Brae, Culross
- 3 Tanhouse Brae, Culross
- Snuff Cottage, Tanhouse Brae, Culross
- The Tanhouse, Tanhouse Brae, Culross
- Macdonald And Reid Butcher's Shop, The Cross, Culross