Tanbrae House, Tanhouse Brae, Culross is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 July 1973. House.

Tanbrae House, Tanhouse Brae, Culross

WRENN ID
sharp-chancel-winter
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
Tanbrae House, Tanhouse Brae, Culross, KY12 8HX
OS grid reference
NS 987 859
Coordinates
56.05578, -3.62808
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Tanbrae House is a late 18th-century, two-storey, three-bay house that underwent alterations in the later 19th century. It features a later single-storey wing to the southeast. The exterior is finished in pebble-dash, with a vertical ashlar margin on the right side and an ashlar eaves course at the rear.

On the southeast elevation, which serves as the entrance, there is a central door flanked by single windows. The first floor has three dormer windows that break the eaves. The single-storey wing is located at the far right, with a door and flanking windows on the left return.

The southwest elevation has a ground floor window to the left. The northwest elevation features a small, near-central ground floor opening, which is a coal chute, with a stair window above to the right and a first-floor dormer window breaking the eaves to the left.

The northeast elevation is attached to 5 Tanhouse Brae. The windows are four-pane timber sash and case with horns, and there is a timber boarded door with a stained glass fan light. The roof is pitched and covered with slate, featuring a scroll skewputt at the rear right and a coped gable apex stack on the southwest side.

Inside, the northeast ground floor room has a stone flag floor, and there is a central staircase. The southwest room contains a Victorian cast-iron fireplace adorned with decorative glazed tiles. The first floor has combed ceilings.

Local climate

Tanbrae House, Tanhouse Brae, 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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