Fife Folk Museum, High Street, Ceres is a Grade A listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 August 1972. Museum, cottage. 1 related planning application.
Fife Folk Museum, High Street, Ceres
- WRENN ID
- shifting-step-jet
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 10 August 1972
- Type
- Museum, cottage
- Address
- Fife Folk Museum, High Street, Ceres, KY15 5NF
- OS grid reference
- NO 400 114
- Coordinates
- 56.29184, -2.97047
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Fife Folk Museum in Ceres includes two main structures.
The first is the Weigh House, also known as 'The Jougs', which dates back to the 17th century. This small building has a single-storey front and a full two-storey section at the back. It features one door and one window, constructed from rubble with a stone slate roof. The building has scrolled skewputts, and above the door is a panel depicting scales with the inscription 'God bless the just'. A pair of jougs hangs by the door.
The second structure consists of a pair of cottages located to the south of the Weigh House. These cottages are single-storey at the front and two-storey at the back. The northern cottage has two windows and a central door, with a reused lintel inscribed '17 AB MB 10', and is made of rubble with margins. The southern cottage has three windows and a door located between the first and second windows, also made of rubble but with droved dressings. It features a lean-to at the gable and an open lean-to pentice along the rear elevation of both buildings, which is a modern reconstruction. Both cottages have pantiled roofs.
Local climate
Fife Folk Museum, High Street, Ceres receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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