Beechwood House, Low Causeway, Culross is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 January 1972. House. 7 related planning applications.
Beechwood House, Low Causeway, Culross
- WRENN ID
- upper-dormer-lichen
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Dunfermline and Dollar MP: Graeme Downie (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1972
- Type
- House
- Address
- Beechwood House, Low Causeway, Culross, KY12 8HN
- OS grid reference
- NS 986 858
- Coordinates
- 56.05497, -3.62933
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Beechwood House, located on Low Causeway in Culross, is a later 18th century, two-storey and attic, five-bay house that was formerly two separate houses. It features a single-storey extension to the east and a pend to the southeast. The building has ashlar margins, quoins, and a cavetto eaves course.
On the north (principal) elevation, there are five ground floor windows, with former doors located at the third and fourth bays. The door lintel at the third bay is initialled 'DM CA' and dated 1788. The first floor has three windows to the left, centered above the ground floor openings, and one window to the right, also centered above a ground floor window. The first floor windows are positioned close to the eaves. The single-storey wing has two windows.
The east elevation features an attic window to the left, and the pend extends from the single-storey wing, providing a large opening for vehicular access.
The south elevation has a central door with a modern porch, flanked by ground floor windows, and three first floor windows. The single-storey wing also has a modern porch and window.
The west elevation is attached to Pear Tree Cottage. The building has replacement doors and 12-pane timber sash and case windows. The pitched slate roof has raised ashlar skews, with corniced gable end stacks and circular and polygonal clay cans. The wing has a piended clay tile roof.
The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 2001.
Local climate
Beechwood House, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 7 applications
- 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
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