The Hermitage Cottage, 1 Milton Road, Pittenweem is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 August 1972. House. 1 related planning application.

The Hermitage Cottage, 1 Milton Road, Pittenweem

WRENN ID
rusted-moat-rain
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
18 August 1972
Type
House
Address
The Hermitage Cottage, 1 Milton Road, Pittenweem, KY10 2LN
OS grid reference
NO 550 028
Coordinates
56.21575, -2.72585
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Hermitage Cottage, located at 1 Milton Road in Pittenweem, is an early 19th-century building. It is a single-storey structure with an attic, featuring two windows and a central door. The exterior is finished in painted stucco with margins and has a pantiled roof. There are also two later tripartite dormers added to the building.

Local climate

The Hermitage Cottage, 1 Milton Road, Pittenweem 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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