May Cottage, 5 North Street, Kingsbarns is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 November 1971. 1 related planning application.

May Cottage, 5 North Street, Kingsbarns

WRENN ID
tenth-grate-elder
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
23 November 1971
Address
May Cottage, 5 North Street, Kingsbarns, KY16 8SN
OS grid reference
NO 593 122
Coordinates
56.30067, -2.65878
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

May Cottage is an 18th-century, two-story house with three windows, faced in harled render with margins highlighting the window surrounds. The roof is pantiled and the gable ends feature a crowstepped detail. The statutory address is May Cottage, North Street.

Local climate

May Cottage, 5 North Street, Kingsbarns receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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