St Mungo's Cottage, Low Causeway, Culross is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 July 1973. House. 1 related planning application.

St Mungo's Cottage, Low Causeway, Culross

WRENN ID
high-chancel-willow
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Dunfermline and Dollar MP: Graeme Downie (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
19 July 1973
Type
House
Address
St Mungo's Cottage, Low Causeway, Culross, KY12 8HJ
OS grid reference
NS 991 860
Coordinates
56.05686, -3.62085
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

St Mungo's Cottage, located on Low Causeway in Culross, is an early 18th century, two-storey, three-bay house. A later addition from the 18th century features a two-storey, two-bay section on the east side. The building has a late 20th century rear wing and a lean-to. It is constructed with ashlar margins and has a harled finish, with painted quoins on the southeast and northeast corners at the first floor.

On the south elevation, the original three-bay section is to the left, featuring three ground floor windows (with a former door now replaced by a central window) and three first floor windows directly above. The two-bay section to the right includes a door on the left with a fanlight and a corniced lintel, and a window to the right, with two first floor windows centred above at the eaves. A wall extends from the right at ground level, containing a door that connects to a tall rubble sandstone garden wall.

The west elevation has a ground floor window to the left, with the rear wing set back. This wing features three first floor windows and two piended dormer windows integrated into the roof. There is a lean-to at ground level with two arches inside.

On the north elevation, a piended dormer window is located wholly in the roof at the far right, alongside a lean-to at ground level that contains two windows. A first floor window is present to the left in the rear wing, with two additional first floor windows in the left return of the rear wing. A section set back to the left has a first floor window to the right, a lean-to at ground level, rooflights, and varied fenestration.

The east elevation features a plain gable wall at the first floor and a lean-to greenhouse at ground level. There is another lean-to to the right, with a door on the left and a window on the right.

The windows are predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case with horns, and there are two roof lights at the front. The building has pitched slate roofs, with coped gable apex stacks, a coped ridge stack, and polygonal clay cans.

Inside, the ground floor rooms of the earlier section have a lower ceiling height, and there is an arched alcove in the east room on both the ground and first floors.

To the east of the house, a tall rubble sandstone wall connects to St Mungo's Chapel, with an outhouse attached to the north of the wall that has two doors.

Local climate

St Mungo's Cottage, Low Causeway, 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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