Bessie Bar's Cottage, Sandhaven, Culross is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 January 1972. House.
Bessie Bar's Cottage, Sandhaven, Culross
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-gallery-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 985 859
- Coordinates
- 56.05537, -3.63122
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Bessie Bar's Cottage in Sandhaven, Culross, was built in 1796 and is a two-storey house with a rectangular plan and a pend on the east side. The exterior is harled, with painted ashlar surrounds framing the door and windows.
On the north elevation, there is a near-central door with a National Trust for Scotland plaque above it and a lintel dated 1796. This elevation features single windows flanking the door and three windows on the first floor. The pend opening is located at the far left, with a chamfer and stop on the left quoin and an exposed stone arch.
The east elevation adjoins Sandhaven House (Tarnawski).
The south elevation also has a near-central door with single windows flanking it. There is a pend at the far right and an exposed stone arch, along with four windows on the first floor and two projecting stones at the far left.
The west elevation was not visible in 2001. The cottage features replacement 12-pane timber sash and case windows and a timber boarded door. The roof is pitched, with clay pantiles on the south side and slates on the north side. There are stone screws and scroll skewputts on the north elevation, along with coped gable apex stacks.
The interior was not seen in 2001, but a modern pend has been inserted.
Local climate
Bessie Bar's Cottage, Sandhaven, 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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