The Tanner's House, 4 Tanhouse Brae, Culross is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 January 1972. House.

The Tanner's House, 4 Tanhouse Brae, Culross

WRENN ID
broken-attic-heron
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 987 859
Coordinates
56.05587, -3.62811
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Tanner's House, located at 4 Tanhouse Brae in Culross, dates from the later part of the 17th century. It is a two-storey, two-bay house on the west side, connected to a larger two-storey, four-bay house on the east, now functioning as a single residence. The exterior is harled with a base course, featuring stone surrounds for the windows and doors, and chamfered surrounds on the larger house.

On the southeast elevation, the principal entrance is located to the far left, with a window to the right and two first-floor windows centered above. There is an advanced, corbelled section of the upper wall between the two houses. The larger eastern house has a chamfered door surround at the entrance, two windows to the left, and one window to the right. Above the far left window, there is a stone panel carved with a meat cleaver and steel, inscribed with 'I.S. I.L 1664'. The elevation also features three first-floor windows, with a National Trust for Scotland plaque positioned between the second and third windows. The threshold stone at the entrance door covers an open street drain.

The southwest elevation is attached to 3 Tanhouse Brae, while the northwest elevation is partially visible, showing a first-floor window on the smaller house, along with a large ground-floor window to the right and two first-floor windows above on the eastern house. There is also a central mid-level window and a first-floor window to the left.

The northeast elevation is not visible, as the tall wall of The Tanhouse obscures it. The windows are 12 and 16-pane timber sash and case types. The smaller house has a timber boarded door, while the larger house features a partially glazed, timber boarded two-leaf door. Both houses have pitched roofs covered with clay pantiles, with the smaller house having a lower roofline. The larger house boasts crowstepped gables, skewputts, and coped gable apex stacks, along with polygonal cans.

The interior was not seen in 2001.

Local climate

The Tanner's House, 4 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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